Episode #1726
Chuck Palahniuk
Books mentioned
Geek Love
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Still Life with Woodpecker
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Confederacy of Dunces
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Tom Sawyer
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Make Something Up
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Into the Wild
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Fight Club 3
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Snuff
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The Martian Chronicles
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The Joy Luck Club
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The Gift
Mentioned by Chuck Palahniuk · at 02:41:22 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Choke
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People, Places, Things
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Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club, Choke, and other works. The episode examines how censorship, cultural change, childhood trauma, risk-taking, and brain injury shape his writing, while discussing his novel-building process, serialized fiction and teaching materials, and subjects including animal behavior, Bigfoot, Homer, combat sports, sexuality, and privilege.
What they talked about
- Absurdist existentialism in literature
- Writing process and the use of notebooks
- Building a stone castle during lockdown
- Head trauma and its effects on creativity
- Censorship and cultural sensitivity in writing
- Animal behavior and natural history
- The evolution of space travel in film
- Substack and platform censorship
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