If that was faked, somebody went to a lot of complicated trouble to pull it off.” “There was blood on the floor, people taken away in ambulances. “Well, a lot of people fell and hurt themselves,” Palahniuk says. In fact, so many people fainted during his last tour, when he read “Guts,” Palahniuk and the Cult were accused of staging it all as a publicity stunt. Some have even started following him from city to city, a la the Deadheads who used to trail the Grateful Dead.Īmong those who attend out of curiosity or are dragged there by someone, fainting is not uncommon when confronted with his stories for the first time. Many Cult members are young men - presumably angry - who read no other fiction, says the author. (Check out his Web site, for the Cult’s flavor). Usually about half are members of the Cult, what Palahniuk calls his “out of control” fan club. When Palahniuk, who lives in Portland, Ore., goes on tour, he draws not the polite 15 or 20 people who usually attend book signings, but raucous crowds in the hundreds. If some people find Palahniuk’s stories, novels and nonfiction shocking - “appalling” is a word that frequently turns up in reviews - there are others who are ravenous for, as some critics have styled it, the “shock fiction” of his work. I look for patterns that can turn them into a narrative. “My novels are usually a bunch of true stories I’ve heard from people. “These stories, they don’t even come out of me,” Palahniuk says.
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