11 Things: The Movie Was Better Than the Book Nov 20, 2009
Even Chuck Palahniuk fans acknowledge that David Fincher's version is top-notch. Best of all - spoiler alert - stuff actually blows up in the movie. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Still a big hitWhat is it with guys and “Fight Club”? Do you really need to ask... Nov 17, 2009
Fight Club flopped on its release in 1999, earning $37 million, but pay TV and a pioneering DVD built a word-of-mouth sensation to rival the shadowy pugilist parties at the heart of the movie based on Chuck Palahniuk s novel ... Fight Club flopped on its release in 1999, earning $37 million, but pay TV and a pioneering DVD built a word-of-mouth sensation to rival the shadowy pugilist parties at the heart of the movie based on Chuck Palahniuk s novel. (New York Post -- News)
Is masturbation an OK topic for high school lit class? Nov 12, 2009
The story is Guts by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk ... Ive never heard of [Chuck Palahniuk. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
'Pygmy' delivers with cringe-worthy satire Sep 25, 2009
Author: Chuck Palahniuk ... Chuck Palahniuk's tenth novel, Pygmy, is due in stores on May 5, 2009 ... This is all within the first 20 pages of Chuck Palahniuks Pygmy. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Blogger May Have A Past Aug 21, 2009
Several bloggers on the site appear to have been inspired by the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, which was later adapted into movie starring Brad Pitt. A man who answered the phone at Zerohedge declined to give his name or to comment. (New York Post -- Business)
Lights, Camera, Klamath Aug 12, 2009
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Many towns in the Basin could act as the opening backdrop for Rant, a novel about a young man born in a small, rural community who later discovers he has heightened senses and other strange abilities. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Jennifer McMahon’s novel ‘Dismantled: Tell Me Your Biggest Secret...’ Jul 22, 2009
She s just joined my ever-growing list of novelists (think Paul Auster, Chuck Palahniuk) who make promises to their readers that they don t keep. Find something else for beach reading this summer. (Boston Globe)
Cinema File: 'Public Enemies' seriously misfires Jul 9, 2009
"Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk once responded to a critic's harsh words by saying, "Until you can create something that captivates people, I'd invite you to just shut up. It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.". I completely agree with him. (Athens Banner-Herald)
* [PAPERBACK: US] A wild ride to break a dubious record Jun 28, 2009
Chuck Palahniuk is perhaps best known for his first novel, Fight Club, on which the cult film is based ... Of course readers are bound to be disappointed if they are looking for something along the lines of Woolf or Melville (yes, there is a feeble pun about the white whale), but even without reading the book flaps, whats to be expected from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk titled Snuff. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
In "Pygmy,'' author and character take risks Jun 18, 2009
Despite his status as a consistently best-selling author, Chuck Palahniuk has always taken chances with his fiction, creating outside-the-box story lines that often find characters treading the margins of a society that shuts them out. Tyler Durden - the brash, swaggering protagonist of Fight Club, played by Brad Pitt in David Fincher s film adaptation - may be the most recognizable to a popular audience, but Palahniuk s novels are filled with memorable misfits, from Tender Branson ( Survivor )... (Boston Globe)
Q&A: `Fight Club' author has a new small hero Jun 16, 2009
Sioux City Journal : Qght Club' author has a new small hero. ""All the other people in this homeless soup kitchen thought that I was some sort of murderer who'd gotten out of prison and was having to do community service work," he says. "And the things that people were kind of projecting on me said more about them than they said about me. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Dark inspirations - Author discusses 'Fight Club,’ new novel 'Pygmy’ Jun 3, 2009
author Chuck Palahniuk has a new novel, Pygmy, about a group of undercover teen operatives from an unnamed totalitarian country ... - Everybody just knew Chuck Palahniuk was a murderer - maybe something worse. (Missoulian, MT)
Rumour got 'Fight Club' author ruminating May 28, 2009
Everybody just knew Chuck Palahniuk was a murderer maybe something worse. The author spent some time working in a soup kitchen years ago, but didn't bother to tell anyone who he was. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Q&A: `Fight Club' author has a new small hero May 27, 2009
In this image released by Random House, "Pygmy," by author Chuck Palahniuk, is shown ... In this image released by Random House, Chuck Palahniuk, author of "Pygmy," is shown ... Qght Club' author Chuck Palahniuk offers a zany book with a small hero at the center. (Albany Times Union)
Suzuki Swift sensation May 27, 2009
"You are not special," Chuck Palahniuk once spat onto a page ... Chuck Palahniuk may be right about us all being the same. (iAfrica.com)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 17 / May 18, 2009
PYGMY, by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday; 256 pages; $24. 95). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk May 12, 2009
Qelist Chuck Palahniuk - TIME ... Author Chuck Palahniuk at a reading hosted by Strand Bookstore at Webster Hall in New York City ... Chuck Palahniuk isn't a rock star, but he could be. (Time.com)
A Chuck Palahniuk exclusive May 9, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: One of three fairy tales' written by Chuck Palahniuk for the tour of his new novel, Pygmy ... Chuck Palahniuk's new novel, Pygmy, tells the story of Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of terrorism ... Copyright Chuck Palahniuk 2009. (Globe and Mail)
Three to See May 5, 2009
DECIDEDLY DIFFERENT "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk is back with a new novel, "Pygmy," a decidedly offbeat take about foreign exchange students who dabble in terrorism, tonight at 6 at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets are available at the Harvard Book Store, 617-661-1515. (Boston Globe)
Charles Laughton, scene stealer Feb 20, 2009
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, also wrote a darkly comic novel which, as The Globe's Rick Groen observed, has been turned by director-screenwriter Clark Gregg into a film with suffocating narrative clutter. Choke (2008) stars Sam Rockwell as a member of a sexual-addiction self-help group whose mother (Anjelica Huston), in the throes of dementia, thinks he's a dead lawyer. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
