Amy's review
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
Amy's review
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
Amy's review
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Palahniuk is always great -- even his non-fiction. This particular book is a book of essays he wrote of studies of how other people see the world, of interviews he's had with various people, and personal reflections. He's carried these world views from others into his non-fiction writings rather than just writing from his own world view.
I think my favorite interviews are with men who have built their own castle in the U.S. and with writer Amy Hempel. I also like his reflections on Ira Levin (another of my favorite writers) and on Brad Pitt's lips.
In his essay about Amy Hempel, he says that if she wrote enough, he'd just lay in bed all day reading her books. He calls her a master at minimalism; she's able to get a whole paragraph of meaning in a single sentence without a lot of lofty adverbs. His example is the opening sentence in her short story "The Harvest": "The year I began to say vahz i...more
I think my favorite interviews are with men who have built their own castle in the U.S. and with writer Amy Hempel. I also like his reflections on Ira Levin (another of my favorite writers) and on Brad Pitt's lips.
In his essay about Amy Hempel, he says that if she wrote enough, he'd just lay in bed all day reading her books. He calls her a master at minimalism; she's able to get a whole paragraph of meaning in a single sentence without a lot of lofty adverbs. His example is the opening sentence in her short story "The Harvest": "The year I began to say vahz i...more
