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9 unusual facts about Chuck Palahniuk


Between Angels and Insects

The song's lyrics feature numerous references to the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Brighton Festival

It also encourages cross-fertilisation between different art forms, such as 2006's "Stories In Motion", a multimedia collaboration between Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh and Orbital's Phil Hartnoll; also 2006's "Warp Moves", a collaboration between artists from Warp Records and dancers from Random Dance.

Leitmotif

Leitmotifs is also said to be present in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and also in the works of Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Thomas Mann, Chuck Palahniuk, and Julian Barnes.

Narcotization

An example of this is used by Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (US Title) where he describes a study done on gum disease and the benefits of oral hygiene.

Pillow fight flash mob

These events occur around the world, some taking the name Pillow Fight Club, a reference to Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk in which anyone could join and fight as long as they fought by the rules.

Slagsmålsklubben

The group's name is a comically literal Swedish translation of the title of the novel and film Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature

2, No. 2 (2005): The first collection of critical essays on American novelist Chuck Palahniuk to appear in print.

Tokio ya no nos quiere

At the same time then, the book jumps to the opposite position and reflects a Nietzschean concept found throughout the writings of modern authors like Chuck Palahniuk.

Urethral foreign body

The Chuck Palahniuk story "Guts", from the novel Haunted, includes the story of a boy in his early teens inserting candle wax into his urethra.


Jacob Magraw-Mickelson

His paintings have been featured in Anthropologie’s 2007 Summer catalog and on the cover of Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey.

Vroman's Bookstore

Vroman's has hosted many author readings, including celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Margaret Cho, Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter, Courtney Love, Salman Rushdie, Anne Rice, Joan Didion, Nick Hornby, Bret Easton Ellis, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Chuck Palahniuk, and President Bill Clinton.


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