Word: palahniuk
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...recover his masculinity by getting a group of buddies together for bareknuckle fights. She liked the film, noting how the violence spiraled out of control and the main character found redemption with a woman in a familial relationship. She called the movie "Stiffed on speed," so I called Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novel Fight Club. He was several hundred pages deep into Faludi's book and already calling his story "the fictionalized version of Stiffed." There was a lot of love going around...
...Although Palahniuk agreed with Faludi's analysis of the problem, he said he thought weekly bareknuckle bouts would be cathartic. "Men need violence. We are very much still animals," he said from his home in Portland, Ore., the least manly city in North America. "We can channel violent feelings into working hard and buying things, but they keep popping up. We need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book...
...both Faludi and Palahniuk have it wrong. Pity is over. Oprah's national hugs have been replaced by Jerry Springer's mocking chants for fisticuffs. Men are fine. We don't want to go back to construction work with other men, mostly because construction is hard and screaming "Nice ass" never seems to work. No, we're not men like our fathers: confident, stern and single-handedly supporting a family. But we're happier and more pleasant in our permanent adolescence reading Maxim and watching The Man Show. It definitely beats going...
...clubs up and running all over the country and is molding their members into a paramilitary organization that aims, finally, to blow up all the credit-card companies and, just for good measure, TRW. It is along about here that Fight Club, which is Jim Uhls' adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, lurches from satire into fantasy. For we begin to realize that the hunky Pitt is the willowy Norton's doppelganger, a projection of fantasies about masculine mastery...