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Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel, Fight Club, was adapted into a film of the same title.
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culture · American novelist (born 1962) · writer · novelist · journalist · essayist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · also Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk, Palahniuk
Born 21 February 1962 · Q268181
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It was the best and worst you could perceive of. I remember being in the coroner
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“I want to have the story that makes people weep uncontrollably ... a whole series of very extreme short stories, all linked together with a unifying narrative. I think that will be the book that erases Fight Club.”
“It was the best and worst you could perceive of. I remember being in the coroner”
“Barbecued alive on a big grill. Kind of scary, eh? It”
“a regular tense American childhood”
“A journalist has a right... ...and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create.”
“To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.”
“the central message of Fight Club was always about the empowerment of the individual through small, escalating challenges.”
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EL PAÍS English: Chuck Palahniuk: ‘Transgressive literature in the U.S. ended with 9/11, when we all became terrorists’
The Guardian: Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to serialise new book on Substack
The Guardian: 'No chapter was longer than a music video’: Chuck Palahniuk on how he wrote Fight Club
The Guardian: Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk review – blood and guts, but no heart
The Guardian: Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement
The Guardian: Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk review – all punched out
The Guardian: Chuck Palahniuk 'close to broke' as agent's accountant faces fraud charges
The Guardian: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk steps up for December's reading group
The Guardian: Chuck Palahniuk to publish 'provocative' colouring-in book
A Kickstarter campaign to produce an adaptation of Lullaby, to be directed by Andy Mingo with a script by Palahniuk and Mingo, raised over $400,000, but the film was never produced
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The film version of Rant was announced, starring James Franco, with Pamela Romanowsky writing and directing but the movie was never made
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The New Criterion: Fiction in Brief: Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned
Time: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk
The film version of Choke premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, starring Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald and Anjelica Huston with Clark Gregg directing
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Palahniuk spent a week at the Clarion West Writers Workshop, instructing eighteen students about his writing methods and theory of fiction
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Palahniuk came out as gay after an interview with Karen Valby, a reporter for Entertainment Weekly
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“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”
“On the creation of Fight Club”
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
“Original: «It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
“Original: «The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Movie studios allegedly deemed the novel too controversial to film because it includes the hijacking and crashing of a civilian airplane
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Palahniuk experienced multiple tragedies
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The film adaptation by director David Fincher was released
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Born 1962-02-21.
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