Damned

People are troubled by Chuck Palahniuk. Go ahead, Google him. What you’ll find are a multitude of discussions about the Fight Club author exposing a serious divide: people either love him or hate him. They either think he trades in the gross and the shocking, using jagged prose to hit readers over the head; or he’s a visionary who finds brilliance […]

Chuck Palahniuk is a difficult writer to discuss; even among his fans, there’s great disagreement about which of his books are classics and which are less essential. A writer in possession of a unique and distinct style, a man unafraid of diving down some pretty dark rabbit holes (there have been reports of fainting spells […]

On the one hand, considering all the high-profile epic fantasy sequels we’ve been waiting for oh so patiently, the revelation of a surprise sequel—no waiting!—to one of SFF’s most revered works is exciting stuff. On the other hand, there’s the fact that Burgess abandoned the newly-unearthed book—title: A Clockwork Condition—and considered it unsuccessful, which tempers enthusiasm. […]