Chuck Palahniuk Interview In TIME Magazine

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it still blows my mind, a day later; the workshop was directly mentioned--even discussed--in time magazine. dammit, i have to go and lie down again..

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also, i wonder if chuck will ever start doing what SGJ does and publish a few books here and there through alternate publishers. if he can write three books in a single year, on top of just finishing one, there's no way a single publishing house can keep up with that. sgj publishes through the cage, but last year leadfeather release through FC2 of Alabama Press. i wonder if chuck will ever start alternately publishing similarly..

-kabol

Did I miss where he talks about the Anthology?

And since then it has become so enormous. I contribute critiques and lectures about aspects of writing. They send me six or eight stories each month and I go through them and I offer my feedback.

i really like that picture of him. oh and his glasses.

There is no stopping Chuck. He just keeps getting bigger, and still takes enough time to give a shit!

Thanks Chuck!

that is a bangin' beret, mr p.

Excellent interview, excellent EVENT in DC....please, Chuck, the blue ink signed penguins smeared everywhere....

Kinda like those bank robbery paint bombs.

I think releasing more then one book a year would be a bad thing maybe even a book a year could be a bad thing. Trust me I absolutely love chucks writing but there is such a thing as over saturating the market. When everything is just thrown at you it kind of takes the specialness out of stuff.

I don't agree. If it's good, there's never enough. I don't believe in doling out or saving treats. So if a good author published three books in one year, I'd grab em and call in sick.

The best ones rarely even do one a year.

plus, say what you will about liking his books or not, it's takes some mighty cahones to put something out there and tempt getting kicked in the balls by the reviewers Every. Single. Year!
it'd be so much easier to just go through that like every 3 years or something.

He has to bank some books, though, just in case he goes a la Stevie King and gets writer's block once he stops the booze and the blow (and gets hit by a truck).

I like reading his books, and if he put out three good books a year I would read them... but I think I would rather he didnt. They would be less special, I think. He wouldnt do book tours like this any more, for one, at least not for every book.

Plus, have you read a bunch of his books back to back? A few summers back I went through and read every one of his books back to back, without stopping, and by the end they actually seemed a little repetitive and I was not as readily captivated... he often follows a narrative arc wherein he starts the story at point B, even if just for one short chapter, moves backwards to part A and tells you how we got to part B, and then continues on to part C with a few additional twists thrown in and the chapters getting shorter until the end. I think Pygmy actually had one of his most simplistic narrative structures, which is that save for a few flashbacks, it was straight narrative that started at one place and ended somewhere else, in a somewhat linear fashion. (Though as journal entries there is a lot of events that would have happened outside of the narrative that we are not told about.)

Plus, strategically, it would be unwise, at least from a fiscal point of view, to rel;ease multiple books every year... whether we would buy them or not, market saturation is never a good thing for any prolonged period of time. Maybe two books in a year would be OK, but not every year.

Exactly I love me some Palahniuk I just finished pygmy and I'm already craving Tell All. I like waiting for things the anticipation, the countdown, the i just cant wait to get my hands on this som' bitch! but three a year would take that away but that's just what i think.

I'm just not agreeing with you guys that it would be less special as long as they were good. A good book is simply a special thing to me I guess.

When I first discovered Chuck I read four novels back to back with no problem.

I know he's not going to release three books a year, I'm just dreaming..

i dont know, it just seems like ti would be too much. i would probably be really happy with it the first year, but I dont know if I would be as happy the second, i think i would become too used to Chuck's books, which I dont want to be. The anticipation is part of the fun for me...

It's like the difference between watching a TV show that is full of cliffhangers one episode a week, or watching the whole season on DVD all in two days. Both ways are fun, but they are fun for different reasons.

Now, what I like to do is watch that show one week at a time for my first time through... and then once I have done that I re-watch them without breaks, having already experienced the anticipation... I didnt do it this year but the last two years I read a different Palahniuk book before the new one was released to get in the mood. I re-read Choke to get ready for Snuff, and I re-read Diary to get ready for Rant. And, like I said, the year haunted came out I read through every one of his books, including his non-fiction stuff, all of them back to back. And it was a lot of fun. But I feel like three a year for more than one year would mitigate my capacity for excitement and interest, and right now I love the excitement I get when a new book comes 'round.