Check out this great article from the NY Times on the legacy of Fight Club.  The article interviews David Fincher, Edward Norton and Chuck Palahniuk with small snippets and looks back at the crontrovery surrounding the release of the film.  It also looks at its lasting appeal and the factors that made it into such a cult hit.

Read the NY Times article here

It's taken us a little while to officially report on this story, and for that we apologize.  It's a big story that a couple of reporters have already tried to call and contact me about.  The site has no comment on this matter at this time except to say that you can show your support for this issue by joining this Group:

Save Mr. V. Group On Facebook

To recap, about 2 weeks ago, a popular high school English teacher named Greg Van Voorhis was suspended for handing out copies of Chuck Palahniuk's ground-breaking short story Guts out to his 11th grade students.   According to the Gothamist:

That didn't go over so well with school administrators at the Bronx School of Law and Finance in Marble Hill, where the seven-year veteran was quickly reassigned from his classroom duties while the Department of Education investigates.

As most of you know, Guts is a short story which was featured in the March 2004 issue of Playboy and is included as a chapter in Chuck's best-selling novel Haunted.  The story was read live on Chuck's 2003-2004 tours and is so far responsible causing over 75 people worldwide to faint.  We featured such an incident in our 2003 documentary on Chuck Postcards From The Future, and you can read the full story of Guts here.

To read the full article on Mr. V's suspension, go here.

And if you'd like to show your support, check out the Save Mr. V. Group On Facebook.

This is a big day for all you Fight Club fans.  The movie is finally available on Blu-ray in a special.... correction.... a "You Are Not Special" edition DVD.

Order it here!

The set includes all the features of the previous version, including:

• NEW: A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club
  • Welcome To Fight Club
  • Angel Faces Beating
  • The Crash
  • Tyler's Goodbye
• NEW: Flogging Fight Club
• NEW: Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack's Search Index, Commentary Log, Topic Search
• Behind the Scenes Vignettes: Production, Visual Effects, On Location
• Edward Norton Interview
• Commentary by David Fincher
• Commentary by David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
• Commentary by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls
• Commentary by Alex McDowell, Jeff Cronenweth, Michael Kaplan and Kevin Haug
• Seven Deleted Scenes and Alternate Scenes
• Trailer Farm – Theatrical Teaser, Theatrical Trailer, The Eight Rules of Fight Club
• 12 TV Spots
• Public Service Announcements
• Music Video
• Five Internet Spots
• Promotional Gallery
• Art Gallery

Most of these above features we've seen already.  So it seems the main reason to get this disk is to have this awesome movie on Blu-ray finally.

Check out the official site for the DVD

It’s been almost twenty years (!) since a young Canuck named Douglas Coupland burst onto the literary scene with a full head of hair and his caustic wit, and although his pate bears witness to the ravages of time, his observations are no less sharp.

Much in the way he updated Mircroserfs for the internet age with Jpod, Coupland updates the plight of the disassociated twenty-something with Generation A. Resetting the alphabet back to A (with a little posthumous help from Kurt Vonnegut) Coupland weaves a tale of the near future in which bees are extinct and broadcasting your story to the world only serves to make you less unique.

Buy Generation A from Amazon.com

Our brand new 10th Anniversary Fight Club Tshirts are now shipping!  If you haven't yet placed your order for one of these amazing shirts...

Order Your 'Fight Club' Tshirt Today!

Many of you were holding off on your orders until we had some modeling shots to show you.  Well, as of last week, I got some friends together and we took about 400 pictures of them wearing the 'Fight Club' shirts.  To see some of the best pics we captured, check out our Fight Club Tshirt gallery!  We purposely photographed people with different body types, so you can get a full idea of how the shirts will look on you.

Also don't forget that we are co-promoting the sale of these awesome Tshirts with the limited edition posters that the designer, Kevin Tong, has put together.  The design features the high-rez image from the shirts, which you can see below.  These posters are selling out quick, and there will not be another run of them.  The poster is hand screen printed, four colors, on 18 x 24 inch Cornflower Blue 100 lb Cover Paper in a limited edition of 200. It costs $30.  For more details as well as pictures of the poster:

Order Your Limited Edition 'Fight Club' Poster Here!

Unfortunately, the t-shirt and the poster must be ordered separately as they ship from different locations.

Paging Doctor Kickass

How good is Josh Bazell's debut novel, Beat the Reaper?

Last year I took my girlfriend to see Equus. During intermission, I pulled the book out of my bag to see how much I could read before the show started again. That's the measure of a great book - one where you spend your day looking for moments to get in a few more pages.

Beat the Reaper is the story of Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brwna, a reformed Mafia hitman looking for a little redemption through a medical residency in a Manhattan hospital. When a dying mobster threatens to out him, Brown finds the old adage true: just when you think you’re out, they pull you back in.

His second posthumous collection of prehumous stories, Look At The Birdie focuses on the unpublished early work of Vonnegut's formative years. Phantonymns aside, the stories that make up Birdie share a specific point in time. Whereas the stories in his previous collection, Armageddon in Retrospect, shared the themes of war and peace, the stories that make up Birdie paint a broad picture of post World War II America by nature of when they were written. 

Buy Look At The Birdie from Amazon.com