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Fight Club composer Chuck Palahniuk only quietly, reluctantly came out of the closet a several years ago in an Advocate interview, after letting a statement in 1999 that he had "a wife" depart as the official word for almost a decade monitoring his bestselling fame (he's actually had the same male partner for some nineteen years). It makes sense, we suppose, given that he's one of the only writers of literary fiction in recent decades to gain a following among disaffected straight men under the age of 30, most of whom see Fight Club as a kind of twenty-first century bible of disaffection. Right after Fight Club, Palahniuk published a novel that he'd actually written first called Invisible Monsters that wasn't quite as widely read, and is way more obviously gay and campy the main characters incorporate a kleptomaniac pre-op transsexual and a model whose jaw was blown off in a drive-by highway shooting. Now, V.W. Norton is republishing the publication in its first hardcover edition, with new material and graphic elements that weren't in the original. And to promote the guide, Palahniuk is coming to San Francisco for
Where Is The Love? 20 Years Of Fight Club
The most banal thing one can say about David Fincher’s Fight Club, adapted by Jim Uhls from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, in 2019 is that it both predicted and shaped our current political dystopia. In the years following the film’s release, the common misunderstanding that Tyler Durden is its hero and a source of wisdom – especially regarding the way American society has emasculated men, especially if they’re colorless and middle-class – seems to acquire become the way many now realize the film. The bad fans, to use TV critic Emily Nussbaum’s phrase, have taken it over. The obnoxious college student with Goodfellas, Scarface and Fight Club posters on his wall has become a cliche. Several women have told me they won’t acknowledge personal ads from any man who says his favourite film is Fight Club.
An extremely talkative insomniac white-collar drone (Edward Norton, playing a nameless character only referred to as the Narrator) lives a life free of material want, but his alienation leads him to display out at help groups every overnight, pretending to possess a terminal illness or various addictions. On an airplane, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad
After his electrifying debut novel, Fight Club(1996), became a publishing sensation and renowned movie in the tardy 1990s (film still above), Chuck Palahniuk(pronounced PAHLA-nick) maintained a shroud of privacy over his personal experience. He had a reputation as a quirky individualist, keeping a tight rein in controlling what the public knew about him. Over the years, several publications reported that he had a wife, but no further details were forthcoming. Turns out, those reports were false. He had all along been in a long-term affair with a man.
When the 41-year-old writer idea Entertainment Weeklyreporter Karen Valby was about to out him, he filed an MP3 audio report on the web site, The Cult, in an endeavor to beat EWto the punch. Unfortunately, his audio post talked trash about Valby. It turned out his fears were groundless, because when the highlight story appeared in the fall of 2003, it made no mention of Chuck’s homosexual relationship. She simply reported, “Palahniuk has no wife and declines to discuss his personal life on the record.”
Although Palahniuk quickly removed the audio post, it was too late. He had already outed him
Chuck Palahniuk Hugged Me!
I completely feel like a rock groupie! Chuck Palahniuk did a reading at my all period favorite book store…the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA.
I gathered all his stuff I had in the house that hadn’t already been signed…five books…and marched off about an hour early. He was signing stuff before the reading, but after waiting for forty minutes, I was told, “Sorry, you’ll have to hold on until AFTERwards.” Dang it!
He started his readings by announcing, “I’ve gotta piss, be right back!”
Then, he alternated, first asking for questions from an audience member, then asking a trivia interrogate about one of his books, then reading either something he wrote or something he’d received from a fan that he found interesting.
The place had a total rock concert atmosphere. The bookstore had to sell tickets for $2 apiece just to keep the supply and request in check. But there were throngs of people waiting outside offering to pay $20 for tickets and begging to be able to stand in the back of the theater. So they filled the local show theater with MOBS of people, some of them in costume (prizes were given if you showed up in a wedding dress, a nod to h