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Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a"kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider this is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to.

Features a catwalk model who has everything but when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.

Not since Vonnegut's "Mother Night" and Kosinski's "Being There" has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.

Rant is an oral history centered on Buster 'Rant' Casey, featuring voices from friends, enemies, admirers, and detractors who share their perspectives on this complex character. Born in a small town, Rant seeks real thrills beyond the confines of video games and movies. His unconventional lifestyle includes a penchant for rabies and seeking the effects of black widow spider bites. A high school rebel, he escapes to the city, where he becomes a leader in an urban demolition derby known as Party Crashing. Participants, identifiable by their uniquely decorated cars, engage in a chaotic game of stalking and crashing into each other during designated times and areas. Amidst this violent nightlife, Rant forms deep connections with three friends. Following his untimely death, these friends compile testimonies that reveal the impact of Rant's life, including allegations that his saliva caused a rabies outbreak in the city. This plague, however, serves as a catalyst for liberation, allowing his peers to break free from mundane routines. Expect a blend of humor, horror, and profound insights into the surreal aspects of contemporary life, delivered with the unique style of Chuck Palahniuk, who continues to push boundaries in modern literature.

Joanna en Walbert Eberhart, een jong echtpaar, kunnen zich eindelijk veroorloven naar het welvarende forensenstadje Stepford te verkassen. Al gauw raken ze bij het wel en wee van de bewoners betrokken, maken ze nieuwe vrienden en voelen ze zich er thuis en gelukkig. Het valt Joanna wel op dat alle vrouwen in Stepford keurig kloppende en vegende huisvrouwen zijn, van het type dat ze tot dan toe alleen uit reclamespotjes kende. De mannen daarentegen hebben een eigen, niet voor vrouwen toegankelijk clubhuis. Joanna is vastbesloten hieraan iets te doen. Tot ze een aantal vreemde ontdekkingen doet, die haar langzaam maar zeker met afschuw vervullen.

"The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . ." The best stories engage readers, compelling them to turn pages in anticipation of what comes next. Great literature is defined by its imagination, as demonstrated in this exceptional anthology, which redefines the boundaries of imaginative fiction. It features contributions from renowned writers like Peter Straub, Chuck Palahniuk, Roddy Doyle, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others, showcasing their craft and challenging misconceptions about genres. Curated by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, who personally selected each story, the anthology sets a high standard for this "new literature of the imagination." The collection aims to present familiar themes in fresh, illuminating ways. Notable tales include Joe Hill's disturbing exploration of evil in "Devil on the Staircase," Lawrence Block's unique take on fishing in "Catch and Release," and Carolyn Parkhurst's dark sibling rivalry in "Unwell." Joanne Harris introduces ancient gods in modern New York in "Wildfire in Manhattan," while Richard Adams's "The Knife" delves into vengeance. Jeffery Deaver's "The Therapist" features a psychologist on a mission to save lives, and Neil Gaiman's chilling "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" offers a haunting punishment for a grave crime. This visionary volume will transform readers’ perspectives and ignite a renewed appreciation for exceptional fiction.

'Burnt Tongues' is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas. These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression - some may say even a scar.

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.

"Bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight tales, illustrated in detailed black and white"--Provided by publisher

Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.

The book features a gripping narrative that explores complex themes of love, loss, and redemption. The protagonist embarks on a transformative journey, facing both internal and external challenges that test their resilience. With richly developed characters and a vivid setting, the story delves into the intricacies of human relationships and the impact of past choices on the present. Readers can expect an emotional rollercoaster that blends poignant moments with thought-provoking insights, making it a compelling read.

Made up of 23 of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales readers will ever encounter, "Haunted" is Palahniuk at his finest--which means his most extreme and his most provocative.

Kicking off with an introduction featuring Katherine Dunn, author of the bestselling classic "Greek Love, " this journey showcases Palahniuk's hometown with ''a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe should've kept their mouths shut in Portland.

Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise "Non-Fiction" prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant, Make Something Up is a compilation of twenty-one stories and one novella that disturbs and delights. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in Zombies, the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In Knock, Knock, a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in Tunnel of Love, a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing relief to dying clients. And in Expedition, infamous Fight Club member Tyler Durden shows a side of himself never seen before.

'The Invention of Sound' is a chilling tale of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make 'the whole world scream at the exact same time'.

Madison Spencer is back. Continuing the afterlife adventure begun in 'Damned', Chuck Palahniuk leads us on a journey through a purgatory that only he could imagine. But this purgatory is very familiar. You and I know it as Earth. And while Madison can see and hear every last detail of the world she left behind, she is invisible to everyone who's still alive.

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.' 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it’s not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable cavalcade of escaped convicts that keep showing up at their door. Not to mention the debaucherous new tutor who has a penchant for speaking in Greek and dismembering sex dolls. Then there’s Mummy’s burgeoning opioid addiction. And who knows where Daddy is. He just vanished one day after he and Mummy took a walk in the so called “Ghost Forest.” With Grandfather putting pressure on Otto to step up, it becomes clear that this will all end in only two a nuclear apocalypse or just another day among the creeping thistle and tree peonies. And in a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, either are equally possible.

"A novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more ... Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?"--Amazon.com

Tyler’s been around a lot longer than anyone realized . . . To gain admittance to the current generation of Project Mayhem, Marla is more than happy to provide Sebastian with plenty of bruises, and thus, the search for their son begins . . .*One of IGN and io9’s Most Anticipated Comics of 2015!“Ever wanted to know what happened to the anonymous narrator—and his constant companion, Tyler Durden—of Fight Club? Thanks to writer Chuck Palahniuk, artist Cameron Stewart and Dark Horse Comics, you’ll get the answer in Fight Club 2.”—Playboy

A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenophobia.

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat  name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless  send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter–ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie”  Kenton—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s  bold-faced—it’s vintage Chuck.

"Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to the sequel to Fight Club! Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn't her husband-it's Tyler Durden, who's very invested in his heir, and the world he'll inherit. Marla, her first son, and her husband-the unnamed narrator in the novel, who now goes by Balthazar-live in a rundown motel with sketchy neighbors. In the Fight Club 2 graphic novel, Tyler transformed Project Mayhem into Rize or Die-now, as a road to paradise presents itself, a new group has implemented a ruthless and deviant plan to fine-tune mankind, leading Balthazar to forge an unlikely alliance . . . with Tyler Durden"--

Balthazar – beziehungsweise der Mann, der sich inzwischen Balthazar nennt – und seine Frau Marla Singer leben in einem heruntergewirtschafteten Motel mit dubiosen Zimmernachbarn. Marla ist zum zweitem Mal schwanger, und die Geburt steht kurz bevor. Aber Balthazar ist nicht der Vater – es ist Tyler Durdens Kind, und der macht sich große Sorgen um den Zustand der Welt, die er seinem Erben hinterlassen wird. Denn eine neue Organisation macht dem ehemaligen Projekt Chaos Konkurrenz bei der Beherrschung der Menschheit, und so ist Tyler gezwungen, eine Allianz mit dem unwahrscheinlichsten aller Partner einzugehen: Balthazar. Kultautor Chuck Palahniuk ist noch lange nicht fertig mit seiner Abrechnung mit der Gesellschaft! »Fight Club« war der Befreiungsschlag einer in Nichtigkeiten versinkenden Generation von Konsumbesessenen, und die Fortsetzung des erfolgreichen Romans als Graphic Novel stand dem in nichts nach. Palahniuks schonungsloser Blick hinter die dünne Fassade unserer sogenannten Zivilisation hat auch im dritten Teil von »Fight Club« nichts an Schärfe verloren. Der Eisner-Award-Gewinner Cameron Stewart zieht erneut alle Register der Comic-Kunst, um Palahniuks nihilistische Vision in Bilder zu fassen.

Balthazar – beziehungsweise der Mann, der sich inzwischen Balthazar nennt – und seine Frau Marla Singer leben in einem heruntergewirtschafteten Motel mit dubiosen Zimmernachbarn. Marla ist zum zweitem Mal schwanger, und die Geburt steht kurz bevor. Aber Balthazar ist nicht der Vater – es ist Tyler Durdens Kind, und der macht sich große Sorgen um den Zustand der Welt, die er seinem Erben hinterlassen wird. Denn eine neue Organisation macht dem ehemaligen Projekt Chaos Konkurrenz bei der Beherrschung der Menschheit, und so ist Tyler gezwungen, eine Allianz mit dem unwahrscheinlichsten aller Partner einzugehen: Balthazar. Kultautor Chuck Palahniuk ist noch lange nicht fertig mit seiner Abrechnung mit der Gesellschaft! »Fight Club« war der Befreiungsschlag einer in Nichtigkeiten versinkenden Generation von Konsumbesessenen, und die Fortsetzung des erfolgreichen Romans als Graphic Novel stand dem in nichts nach. Palahniuks schonungsloser Blick hinter die dünne Fassade unserer sogenannten Zivilisation hat auch im dritten Teil von »Fight Club« nichts an Schärfe verloren. Der Eisner-Award-Gewinner Cameron Stewart zieht erneut alle Register der Comic-Kunst, um Palahniuks nihilistische Vision in Bilder zu fassen. Abschlussband der Reihe

„A szexmániával pont ugyanaz a gond, ami a többi függőséggel. Folyton csak gyógyulófélben vagy. Folyton csak visszacsúszol. Megjátszod magad. Amíg nem találsz valamit, amiért küzdhetsz, beéred bármivel, ami ellen küzdhetsz. Valahányszor azt hallom, hogy meg akarnak szabadulni a nemi megszállottságtól, csak megrántom a vállam. Ugyan már, mi lehet jobb a szexnél? Annyi szent, hogy a legpocsékabb szopás is ezerszer jobb, mint beleszagolni a legszebb rózsába... Végignézni a legcsodásabb naplementét... Hallgatni a csilingelő gyermekkacajt. Lefogadom, hogy egyetlen verset sem találnék olyan elragadónak, mint egy ínyzsibbasztó, seggfeszítő, faszrobbantó orgazmust. Az ember csak addig festeget tájképeket, komponál operát, amíg hozzá nem jut a következő készséges testnyíláshoz. Palahniuk Amint valaki talál jobb elfoglaltságot a szexnél, hívjon fel. Dobjon egy emailt. A noi mosdóban, tövig Nicóban, tarkóra tett kézzel hátradőlök. Az elkövetkező pár percre megszűnnek gondjaim. Nincs anyám. Nincs kórházi számla. Nincs szaros múzeumi meló. [..] Nincs semmi. Semmit sem érzek.