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A Survey of the Imperfect Art of the Book Trailer
What is a book trailer? Consider it a marriage between the book jacket blurb and video. It's purpose is to act as a teaser in much the same way as a movie trailer. In fact, consider it a movie trailer. But for books. Still confused? Maybe this quick survey of book trailers will help clarify. Beware. The majority of book trailers are rudimentary handmade productions incorporating pixelated still photos and text in slideshow form. A large proportion of these trailers seem to be for romance novels (hilarious to watch but awkward to view in an open office where they can... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayChoke
It doesn’t require much brainpower to underestimate the work of... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsCatching Up With... Chuck Palahniuk
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
Found in: Books, FeaturesMy History of Violence
When I was a cub reporter starting out at the Albuquerque Tribune, I found a report in the police blotter about a pair of 16-year-old lovers who gassed themselves in a car. I about choked on how great a story it was, did a little reporting, found out they did it in a... read more
Found in: Books, FeaturesShock and Awww
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
Found in: Books, FeaturesChuck Palahniuk and DC Comics in talks
He's brought the world plenty of snuff to choke on, and at least one twisted lullaby, and now Chuck Palahniuk is in talks with DC to invade comic stores with his mad-satire.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsMultiple Chuck Palahniuk novels set to hit the big screen
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
Found in: Books, NewsChoke soundtrack to include Radiohead, MMJ, DCFC, more
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
Found in: Movies, NewsRadiohead contributes song to Chuck Palahniuk's Choke
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
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch the trailer for Chuck Palahniuk's Choke
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
Found in: Movies, News
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