Category Archives: Chuck Palahniuk

The Jabber Reviews Creeps

Posted on February 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

Huff some paint and ride the rails over to ChuckPalahniuk.net, where you can check out my review of Grace Krilanovich’s Burroughsian nightmare, The Orange Eats Creeps. You’ll be happy to know that, although greatly influenced by the man, Krilanovich doesn’t seem to share Burroughs’ fetish for sodomizing young boys hanging by their neck. Enjoy!

The Orange Eats Creeps is a surreal coming of age horror story, a drug-fueled rape fantasy threatening to overtake reality. Almost every sentence is a half-remembered dream of suppressed emotion, which makes summarizing the narrative a difficult endeavor. The synopsis on the jacket puts it best- a girl with drug induced ESP… searches for her disappeared foster sister along “The Highway That Eats People.” Throw in some comparisons to Twin Peaks and a serial killer named Dactyl and you’ve got yourself an interested me

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Posted in Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Drugs, Opinions Are Like Assholes, Reviews

Tagged Burroughs, ChuckPalahniu.net, Grace Krilanovich, Steve Erickson, The Orange Eats Creeps

This Is A Badass Photograph of Kurt Vonnegut

Posted on February 8, 2011 | Leave a comment

Props to whoever took it (Fair use! Fair use!) If anyone complains, I may have to retain the counsel of my most recent interview subject- Donald C. Farber, Esquire. You may not be familiar with his name, but you should be. He only represents a little author by the name of Kurt Vonnegut, maybe you’ve heard of him?

Not only was he Kurt’s agent and business manager, he was also one of his closest friends. So in lieu of getting John Edwards to help conduct an interview from beyond the grave, this is the next best thing to talking to Kurt. The full interview, as always, resides at The Cult.

Donald Farber has the same no nonsense candor associated with some of Vonnegut’s best work. He was direct and to the point, almost blunt in his answers, and never once gave in to sensationalism. We discussed everything from the trials of being in business with your friends to whether or not Vonnegut would approve of the handling of his estate. Our conversation paints a fascinating picture of one of the most enduring writers of the 20th century and the legacy he left behind.

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Posted in Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Interviews

Tagged ChuckPalahniuk.net, Donald C. Farber, John Edwards, Kurt Vonnegut, The Cult, While Mortals Sleep

Stephen Graham Jones vs. The Sexy Sixlets

Posted on January 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

It Came For Your Sixlets

My interview with prolific, genre loving author Stephen Graham Jones is up at ChuckPalahniuk.net.

Stephen Graham Jones is a man who is constantly writing. He has no choice. He glides through the murky depths of the literary ocean like a shark, because if he stops moving, he’ll die. In fact, by the time you finish reading this he will probably have completed another novel, guzzling his favorite vanilla-infused cola, scarfing whatever the hell Sixlets are.

That’s right, Sixlets. And you know what comes up when you Google image search Sixlets? THIS. I took the liberty of narrowing the search, but if you search Sixlets and scroll down six or seven pages… BAM! Teenage girls taking inappropriate party pics. Looking at them just might be illegal.

Bananas and Blow

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Posted in Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Interviews

Tagged Bananas and Blow, ChuckPalahniuk.net, It Came From Del Rio, Party Pics, Sixlets, Stephen Graham Jones, Underage Girls

Interview With The Anne Ricepire

Posted on November 30, 2010 | 3 Comments

Dickensean principles cat

I know most of you don’t give a hoot about my “serious” journalistic work, but this is a big one. Anne Rice has sold so many books it’s intimidating. In fact, she could say the number while holding her pinky in front of her lips a la Dr. Evil- that’s how many books she’s sold. Nearly 100 million worldwide, to be precise, which makes her one of the most widely read authors in modern history (all this according to Wikipedia.) Let’s have a slice of excerpt pie, shall we?

Anne O’brien Rice has a bit of a history here at The Cult. Since lost in the great Drupal transfer of the aughts, the incident in question exists solely as hearsay and conjecture, bandied about the hallowed halls of the forum like some sort of literary urban legend. As the story goes, Ms. Rice didn’t take too kindly to comments made about her work by some keyboard critic and decided to open up a can of whup ass. Since there is no record of the event, it begs the question- if a bestselling author raises a stink and nothing exists to prove it, did it ever actually happen?

Check out the full interview over at ChuckPalahniuk.net, where Ms. Rice and I discuss everything from religion and God to calling out detractors on the internets.

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Posted in Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Interviews, Religion

Tagged Anne Rice, Atheism, Catholic Church, Interview With The Vampire, Of Love And Evil, Songs of the Seraphim, Vampires

Butt In The Mean Time, I Try To Hawk One…

Posted on November 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

All floating in glass...

My review of Paul Tremblay‘s speculative collection, In The Mean Time, is now ending worlds at The Cult.

Further proof that less is sometimes more, Paul Tremblay returns with a collection of shorts that excite the imagination with their potential. Not potential as in underdeveloped ability, because Tremblay has already proven himself an accomplished craftsman, but potential as in the expressing of possibility. Unfettered by the constraints of the novel, Tremblay is free to explore the mystery of vague ideas without rendering the work unfulfilling. The spaces between the words, where these stories live and breathe, represent the author at his most interesting, ensuring that In The Mean Time will resonate long after the last page has been read.

Read all about it HERE.

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Posted in Books, Chuck Palahniuk, Reviews

Tagged Apocalypse, Black Sheep, ChuckPalahniuk.net, In The Mean Time, Neutral Milk Hotel, Paul Tremblay, Speculative Fiction

Steve Erickson Interview Now Live On ChuckPalahniuk.net

Posted on October 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

My interview with author Steve Erickson is now live over at ChuckPalahniuk.net

From the intro:

I know many of you are already familiar with author Steve Erickson. In fact, it was on the forums here and at Cult sister-site, The Velvet, that I was first introduced to his work. I read The Sea Came At Midnight and screamed for more like a hungry child. Erickson fills the void, writing the type of mind-bending, genre-less fiction that simultaneously challenges and excites. Less than a year and 10 books later, his is one of the first names mentioned when I’m asked about my favorite authors.

Which is why I was thrilled when, so soon after my initial binge, I discovered Erickson had a new novel, Zeroville, due in November from Europa Editions. Not wanting to wait that long to read it, I selfishly hatched a scheme to score myself an advance reader’s copy. I’d masquerade as a journalist and interview him for The Cult! The second the idea crossed my mind I realized how cool that would actually be and suddenly it was about much more than scoring a free book.

Zeroville is a more straightforward effort for Erickson, narratively, but it is also one of his flat out best, so there is no reason for longtime fans to fear. It is the story of Vikar Jerome, a film obsessed ex-seminarian come to LA, fresh off the bus like Axl Rose in Welcome To The Jungle. The story begins in 1969 and spans the entirety of film history itself. Zeroville is a who’s who of film references and is truly a treat for anyone who loves the movies. Erickson, who is also a film critique for Los Angeles magazine, really knows his shit, and it is evident on every page.