TIH 365: Chuck Palahniuk on The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, and Commodifying Human Experience

  • September 3, 2020

  • 3 mins to read

TIH 365 Chuck Palahniuk on The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, and Commodifying Human Experience

In this podcast Chuck Palahniuk talks about The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, commodifying human experience, and much more.

About Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of many bestselling books including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, and Haunted. His forthcoming novel, The Invention of Sound, will be released on September 8th. Earlier this year he released Consider This, a nonfiction book on writing.

Original photo credit: Allan Amato

Show notes

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[3:01] Early life lessons growing up in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington
[6:55] Consuming media and processing story
[10:34] Marketing: a big obstacle
[11:52] Not fitting into neat genre boxes
[12:56] Horror
[14:27] Fear and attraction to conflict
[16:20] Demand for consensual fighting
[16:57] The Invention of Sound
[19:19] Writing method
[25:15] Playboy magazines / Children of the … 
[27:01] Criterium by Tyler Jones
[28:23] Cemetery Dance
[29:23] Online book tour
[31:15] Consider This
[32:08] Getting revenge on the cruel professor
[33:27] Not writing to be liked but writing to be remembered
[35:34] Questioning whether going down the right path
[38:11] Happy Birthday, David Fincher
[39:18] The Invention of Sound
[43:20] Dead parents/dead children
[47:26] Commodification
[51:48] Beautiful You
[53:45] Commodifying death social media site
[1:01:06] Hollywood sound effects
[1:04:18] Max Booth, via Patreon, asks about Rant sequels
[1:05:31] Damned and Doomed
[1:07:22] Zac Dozier, via Patreon, asks about paying things forward
[1:09:19] Chad Lutzke, via Patreon, asks where Chuck draws the line with disturbing content
[1:11:52] Timothy Fox, via Patreon, asks about humanity being responsible for its own problems and a wilful refusal to learn
[1:13:45] Cautionary tale endings
[1:15:08] Lucas Milliron, via Patreon, asks about whether genre-bending works have helped or hindered Chuck’s early success

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