Tuesday's Chuck Palahniuk reading in Seattle is now sold out.  This is the last reading event on Chuck's Invisible Monsters Remix tour.

July 24
Seattle, WA
Town Hall Seattle, 7pm
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA  98101
(presented by The University Bookstore)
*Reading. Books presigned.
Buy Tickets Here - SOLD OUT

If you got a ticket, congrats.  Take some pics and tweet them our way!

Photo by ~C4Chaos

For any of you that weren't able to attend Chuck's reading at the Skirball Cultural Center last night... man, you totally missed out!  Kidding. (but it was great)  But fear not, Chuck will be at Dark Delicacies Bookstore today in Burbank.  This event will not feature a reading or a Q&A, but Chuck will (just) be signing copies of the new Invisible Monsters Remix.  

The event kicks off at 3pm.  Here are the details:

July 18
Los Angeles, CA
Dark Delicacies Bookstore, 3pm
3512 West Magnolia Boulevard
Burbank, CA  91505
*Signing. No reading.

I have been told that the event will go until the last person has their book signed.  But out of respect, try and show up during start-time so Chuck isn't there too late.

You can find more information at Dark Delicacies' website here: http://www.darkdel.com/

Enjoy!

Photo credit: John Everson

Chuck will be doing a reading tonight in Los Angeles at the Skirball Cultural Center for the new release of the Invisible Monsters Remix. Here are the details:

July 17
Los Angeles, CA
Skirball Cultural Center, 8pm - UPDATED! 
(presented by Book Soup)
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90049
*Reading.  Books presigned.
Tickets Here - Free!

I believe tickets are still available. For those of you going, I encourage you to show up early as most of these readings tend to feel like going to the circus. In other words, you're going to have a blast. Take pictures and we'll post them on the site.

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Update: The contest is now closed. Thank you for all who entered!

To see our ten winners, check out a special board we created on Pinterest!

To see all our entries, go here.

The ten winners will now each be contacted (probably via DM on Twitter) with instructions on how to claim their signed Invisible Monsters Remix tour poster. (below)

Thank you all for playing.  This contest was a blast and we were all seriously moved by the creativity and inspiration that was on display here.  Some of you really went for it and showed just how much you love this book and it's characters.

Thank you for that. And remember... #BRANDYLIVES.

Check out tour dates here!

If you haven't already, order the Invisible Monsters Remix here.

Ticket Info Added Below for Select Dates!

Announcing The Brandy Alexander Witness Reincarnation Project Tour, a series of reading and signing events to support the release of the new Invisible Monsters Remix book.  This is a West coast only tour.  Here are the dates and cities Chuck will be visiting:

July 16
San Francisco, CA
The Booksmith, 4pm
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA  94117
*Reading. Books presigned.

*Note: The above event has been merged with the below event for a 7pm start. People who pre-purchased a signed book for the event will pick it up at the door during check-in. Those who would like to purchase a pre-signed book during the event, may do so beforehand at Booksmith.

July 16
San Francisco, CA
The Castro Theater, 7pm
(event hosted by the Commonwealth Club) 
429 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA  CA 94114
*Reading. Tickets required. Books presigned.
Buy Tickets Here

July 17
Los Angeles, CA
Skirball Cultural Center, 7pm
(presented by Book Soup)
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90049
*Reading.  Books presigned.
Tickets Here - Free!

July 18
Los Angeles, CA
Dark Delicacies Bookstore, 3pm
3512 West Magnolia Boulevard
Burbank, CA  91505
*Signing. No reading.

July 24
Seattle, WA
Town Hall Seattle, 7pm
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA  98101
(presented by The University Bookstore)
*Reading. Books presigned.
Buy Tickets Here

 *These events will all be readings with pre-signed books available for purchase. Chuck will not actually be personally signing at any of the events.

To stay updated on this tour, use hashtag #BRANDYLIVES on Twitter.  

And stay tuned for more details as these events get finalized.  We'll update them more as we get closer to the dates.

Order your copy of the Invisible Monsters Remix today!

Rejoice! A book that's been over ten years in the making is finally out. In 1999, Chuck released Invisible Monsters as his third novel. Though as some fans know by now, this book was actually a book he wrote many years earlier. The original publishers weren't happy overall with the story of Brandy Alexander, Shannon and friends, and Chuck, feeling sort of daring decided, rather than tone things down with his next book, he'd ratchet them up, and thus came Fight Club, which then became his first published novel. 

When Invisible Monsters was released in 1999, Chuck didn't want fans to have to pay hardcover prices for a book he wrote many years earlier, so WW Norton themselves, did something daring and released the book directly to trade paperback format. No hardcover was ever released of the original book.

But then something cool happened: Invisbie Monsters went onto become one of Chuck's most beloved books. A true fan favorite. In fact, love of this book caused me to help spearhead a campaign in the early 2000s to have it released in hardcover.  Now, almost ten years later, Norton made it happen. But this isn't just a hardcover version of the book. Here's more from the publishers:

"Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible MonstersRemix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design."

Chuck calls it the Criterion Collection version of Invisible Monsters, and it's out now. 

Order Your Copy Today

Chuck's west coast tour for the upcoming INVISIBLE MONSTERS REMIX release is happening this July, but before all of that, St. Helen's Book Shop is kicking things off in style with a signing party. If you don't know, Chuck has a very special relationship with this local Portland bookstore. For every book release, he visits them and not only signs all of their inventory, but takes personally inscribed custom orders via their website. This is the only store that Chuck has this arrangement with. 

For the main Invisible Monsters Remix tour, Chuck will unfortunately only be pre-signing copies of the new book. But this St. Helen's Book Shop event is the exception! Here are the details:

June 21
Portland, OR
St. Helen's Book Shop, 630p
Event is happening at the Bing Lounge
Ticketed Event. Details here.
Join the Facebook Page for this event.

This is a reading and a signing with Chuck Palahniuk and Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water). Drinks, food and mingling will abound! read more »

One June 11th the long-awaited Invisible Monsters Remix comes out. This is a new version of the book with new chapters, new design elements and best of all, a hardcover format! (finally). Think of it like the Criterion Collection version of the book.

Here's what the publishers, WW Norton had to say about it:

"Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible MonstersRemix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design."

You can pre-order the book today from either Amazon, Barnes & Noble or IndieBound, but if you want a signed and inscribed copy, from Chuck Palahniuk himself...

Pre-Order From St. Helen's Book Shop

Chuck drops into the store occasionally and fulfills orders, signing and inscribing books. When you click the link above, you'll be taken to St. Helen's online store where you can pre-order the book and then leave your custom inscription message for Chuck.  Then, once the book become available on June 11th, your copy will ship to you, along with Chuck's inscription inside!

IMPORTANT: The deadline to get your pre-orders and inscriptions in for this round of signing is February 24th!

For more details on how this works, as well as to order more inscribed Chuck Palahniuk books, check out St. Helen's Book Shop today.

Update: I spoke with WW Norton a little more about this project and was able to get the following details about what will be different about this version of the book.

"Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design."

Several months back we dropped some pretty huge news on you all when it was announced that Invisible Monsters would not only be re-released as a hardcover, but that it would be an updated 'remixed' version of the novel.  For those in the know, Monsters is the only book of Chuck's that was never originally released in a hardcover format.  That all changes next June 2012 when Norton will release this new version.  And today we have an exclusive first look at the cover.

Pre-Order the 'Invisible Monsters' Remix Today!

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For several years now, there has been an underground movement to get Invisible Monsters released in hardcover.  Believe it or not, this beloved book of Chuck's is the only novel of his that was never released in this format.  At the time, this was Chuck's specific wish. Invisible Monsters (originally titled Manifesto) was written before Fight Club but was never originally allowed to see the light of day because his publishers rejected it, due to its disturbing content.  Rather than let this news set him back, Chuck did the opposite of what everyone expected and amped things up even further with Fight Club, which then ironically got published and become his "first" novel.  

Three years later in 1999, the same year Chuck published Survivor, he got to finally see the release of Invisible Monsters, as a slightly revised edition.  He then insisted that this novel only be released in paperback, as he hated the idea of charging his fans too much for it.  

Little did Chuck know that this would turn out to be, perhaps, his most universally loved novel. So it will come as no surprise that a few years later, in the early days of this website, a movement began to get Invisible Monsters re-released in hardcover.  The fans were demanding it.  We even started an online petition. read more »