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Choke

By Sean Edgar on 9:00 AM on September 26, 2008

It doesn’t require much brainpower to underestimate the work of...  read more

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Catching Up With... Chuck Palahniuk

By Josh Jackson on 7:00 AM on September 26, 2008

When a young Chuck Palahniuk pitched his novel Invisible Monsters to publishers, it was rejected because it was too disturbing. His response was to fill his next novel, Fight Club, with even more disturbing and violent events and dub himself a writer of “transgressional fiction”...  read more

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Shock and Awww

By Josh Jackson on 4:40 PM on September 20, 2008

We live in a brutal world. Violent, degrading and tragic events disturb everyday existence, just as they have since the dawn of time. Or as novelist Chuck Palahniuk puts it, “Crap has always happened, crap is happening and crap will continue to happen.”...  read more

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Multiple Chuck Palahniuk novels set to hit the big screen

By Jeremy Medina on 4:33 PM on September 3, 2008

Let's call a spade a spade: Chuck Palahniuk is America's weirdest bestselling author. Miraculously, his often off-putting and out-there novels keep making the leap from the page to the multiplexes. Choke, Palahniuk's tale of a sex-addicted charlatan starring Sam Rockwell, hits theaters Sept. 26. And Palahinuk himself has just let it slip that casting is underway for another one of his novels, Lullaby....  read more

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Choke soundtrack to include Radiohead, MMJ, DCFC, more

By Chelsea Hicks on 4:26 PM on August 15, 2008

Despite the quotes coming from Chuck Palahniuk himself, Radiohead won't be contributing a previously unreleased song to the Choke soundtrack.Big sigh. Now, with that out of the way, we can tell you that the soundtrack, due out on Sept. 23, will feature an orgasmic selection of tracks, including seven that appear in the film along with eight others notable to the vision of actor, director and screenwriter Clark Gregg....  read more

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Radiohead contributes song to Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

By Adam Daniels on 4:03 PM on August 13, 2008

It's funny the way the creative process finds inspiration. Fact: Chuck Palahnuik has gone on record saying he listened to an overabundance of Radiohead while writing his 2001 novel Choke. Fact: Radiohead's "Exit Music (For A Film)" (from 1997's OK Computer) contains the lyrics, "We hope that your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one, in everlasting peace," and then repeats the phrase, "We hope that you choke."But apparently this is not the album that inspired the novel....  read more

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Watch the trailer for Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

By Adina Fleming on 8:41 AM on May 30, 2008

Victor is a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park where fellow employees greet him, “Victor, how art thou?”  He has meaningless sex with a string of random women, and then attends a weekly group therapy session for sex addiction. He has also developed a unique means of earning money to pay for his mother’s Alzheimer’s care: he purposefully chokes in nice restaurants and after allowing patrons to “save” him, milks them for money when they feel responsible for his well-being. No, this isn't the story about your sleazy cousin. Rather, it's a filmadaptation of Fight Club author and...  read more

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