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Chuck Palahniuk

The Old Chuck Palahniuk’s Rules For Short Stories

June 4, 2008

I was discussing with some friends last week whether Chuck Palahniuk was the new Kurt Vonnegut.  Statements like that always strike me as a bit of a cop-out, but I lack a better way to describe Mr. Palahniuk’s writing to people.
The discussion did remind me of Vonnegut’s rules for short stories, which I quite like.  [...]

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The “Oral History” format

May 27, 2008

I am currently in the midst of reading Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk. This is the second book that I have read in the last year that utilizes the oral history format. The first one was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max [...]

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