Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem

by Cynthia Kuhn (Editor), Lance Rubin (Editor), Peter D. Mathews (Contributor)

Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff , as well as his nonfiction, this volume will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary literature.

Genres: Theory, Nonfiction

246 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2009

About the author

Cynthia Kuhn writes the Starlit Bookshop Mysteries and Lila Maclean Academic Mysteries. Her work has also appeared in Mystery Most Edible, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Literary Mama, Copper Nickel, Prick of the Spindle, Mama PhD, and other publications.

Reviews

[Becka · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this overly sympathetic to Palahniuk and his literary motives but then I am not a huge fan, so. Most of the essays are well-researched and well-argued.