“It’s liberating. Fight Club is what bought me my freedom. When you think about so many people—Burroughs, you think of Naked Lunch—so many people are just identified by one work. So it’s not so unusual. Ken Kesey, you think of Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Mother Jones talks with Chuck Palahniuk about his new novel Damned, writing through tragedy, and “hazardous masturbation methods.”
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