new-ish...like a knish

Will Christopher Baer instructed one of the intesives last year and it was very much worth it. especially if you like [i]unique, honest, [b]blunt, dirty, freaky[/b][/i], and [i]exciting[/i]. his writing is deadly, as in it comes across as red and warm and wet

I am part of the current intensive instructed by craig clevenger, a writer who takes prose way, way personally, and it shows in the beautiful sentence structure of his second novel, [i]Dermaphoria[/i].

Chuck, at least at this point, has not instructed any of the cult's intensives. Chuck did get involved in the beginning by crafting an essay a month for two years and responded with Q-&-A's quarterly, all for the Chuck Workshop, so you could say he offered up many of his lessons from Tom Spanbauer on minimalist writing. those essays are no longer available, but many of them have been recapped by vig so that others can get a feel for the technique.

it trips me out that you heard of palahniuk through school. that's badass. and now youre going to hear of hempel and baer and clevenger and stephen g jones and ballard and well a lot of others through this site

welcome to the cult. have fun and always feel free to ask questions
-kabol

"it trips me out that you heard of palahniuk through school. that's badass. and now youre going to hear of hempel and baer and clevenger and stephen g jones and ballard and well a lot of others through this site"

Actually, I've heard of Hempel and Ballard was also required reading for a course I took on "Sex and Death in Contemporary Lit." Yup, if there are interesting courses, I track em down.

I've been told I'd like Ellis' American Psycho too.

Thanks for the welcome

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I've been told I'd like Ellis' American Psycho too.

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[font=Tahoma][b]I have this unhealthy habit[/b] of chewing my nails and cuticles to the point they change to the color of crimson. This happens whenever I'm crazy nervous, or anticipatory, anytime I'm alone and my heart skips beats with bad frequency. When my teeth can no longer reach the small, thin meat of any of my existing cuticles, subconscious desire pulls me toward the side of my fingers, where there's ample dead skin available for harvest. Until they bleed. I catch myself often, but when I’m caught with something quite engaging, a damned good movie or book, i can catch and stop myself--and I often do catch myself--but still when I climb in bed I have to wash my hands first and then in the morning, the aching comes in and I'm pissed off about the constraint of automated control and stare at my fingers like they arent mine but rather a piece of some agonizing puppeteer standing above me somewhere and fucking with me.. that situation has never occurred quite like it did with bret ellis' american psycho; chris baer's hell's half acre offered a close second. (You can still to this day find my DNA of many of those pages.) In the cut by Susanna more, somewhat close but the novel was too short page wise. AP is the perfect amount of length and character to really fuck with you. Im not that big of a fan of BEE, but in my opinion, especially as an aspiring writer, AP and Less Than Zero are required meals. Definitely.
-kabol

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Woah, I cant possibly write anything like Jkabol so I will just say Hello and Welcome.

Enjoy your stay.

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Let's see....I've been a Chuck fan since I read Fight Club for a Contemporary Lit. class.[/QUOTE]

The fact that Chuck is now being read in school is incredibly cool.

I have always said in another 30 years or so Chuck will go down as one of the best authors of late 20th and early 21st century. no doubt.