From the moment in the book’s film adaptation, when Brad Pitt stood in a dirty bar parking lot, wearing a cool leather jacket, and said: “I want you to do me a favor - I want you to hit me as hard as you can”, people knew the first rule was not to talk about it, but they couldn’t stop themselves from talking about the writer behind the fists. Palahniuk’s revolution began with his Fight Club, published in 1996. With his revolution of mischief and punches and body functions steadily sealing its foothold in popular culture, Palahniuk and Haunted are getting the star treatment with high-profile features and publications in most of the major media outlets. Prior to its release, the book was ranked in the top 60 bestsellers on such anticipation so rare for writers not named King, Grisham, or Rowling. Agent, Edward Hibbert at Donadio & Olson.Chuck Palahniuk’s new novel, Haunted, is poised to be one of the most successful literary novels of the year.
For instance, "Obsolete," about a young girl about to commit state-mandated suicide, and "Slumming," about rich couples who pretend to be homeless, play so deftly with expectations and have an emotional core so surprising that they consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors. Palahniuk tells his story with such blithe disregard for these characters that it's hard not to wish he had dispensed with the novel altogether and published, instead, the 23 short stories that pop up throughout the book. They raise the stakes of their story by first depriving themselves of phones, and then of food and electricity eventually they cut off their own fingers, toes and unmentionables before they start dying off and eating each other. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found, they'll all become rich and famous. But such generosity of spirit is not evident in his latest, which charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater.
) above their shocking premises is his ability to find humanity in deeply grotesque characters. What elevates Palahniuk's best novels (e.g., Fight Club
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