New Releases by Chuck PALAHNIUK

"From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future"--

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He''s never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she''s become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real. Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood''s glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers -- his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk''s love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

In the last issue of Fight Club 3, sex isn''t the only thing that makes a comeback. It looks like Tyler''s work here is done. For now . . .

While Marla Singer enjoys a ''''girl''s night out'''', her son learns about biological warfare, and Tyler joins a whole different kind of club at The Last Round-Up.

Trying to return to self-help groups doesn''t go so well for Balthazar--the narrator from the original Fight Club. The conspiracy behind Die Off Endeavors, the group that replaced Project Mayhem, is more sinister than Tyler realized . . . and it''s almost orientation day.

The movement that''s replaced Project Mayhem wants to recruit Marla Singer, and all hell breaks loose for Tyler Durden''s screwed-up family. Tyler is determined to be a father to the child Marla carries, and they''re just starting to learn the truth about the new group''s ruthless and deviant plan for paradise. Tyler Durden Lives!

Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn''t her husband--it''s Tyler Durden, who''s very invested in his heir, and the world he''ll inherit. Marla, her first son, and her husband--the unnamed narrator in the novel, who now goes by Balthazar--live in a rundown motel with sketchy neighbors. In the FIGHT CLUB 2 graphic novel, Tyler transformed Project Mayhem into Rize or Die--now, as a road to paradise presents itself, a new group has implemented a ruthless and deviant plan to fine-tune mankind, leading Balthazar to forge an unlikely alliance . . . with Tyler Durden. Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to the sequel to Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk & Cameron Stewart reunite!

New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval.…Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." —David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day’s arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

In his first long-form fiction since Beautiful You in 2014, the author of Fight Club and Choke delivers another biting social satire in this riches-to-rags novella! This hardcover edition features beautiful colorable illustrations by Steve Morris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who worked on Palahnuik''s Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, and Mike Norton (Revival, Battlepug), with a cover by another Bait collaborator, Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy). Legacy is sure to engage readers with its boundary pushing story-telling while challenging their creative side through its visionary and twisted colorable imagery. An amoral investment banker named Vincent receives an inheritance promising immortality. Unfortunately for Vincent to obtain imortality he has to contend with a flame-retardant stripper, a ruthless stalker, and a bloodthirsty horde of other aspiring immortals dead set in their desire to separate Vincent from his destiny. Praise for Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color: "The conceit is a blast. Ingenious...Palahniuk likes to involve his readers, and maybe even have them be co-conspirators. I loved this book. It''s smart in a new way that deserves to be recognized. Congratulations once again to Palahniuk for showing us a new way to do things...and to make us involved."--FORCES OF GEEK "Chuck Palahniuk is pushing boundaries again."--COMICBOOK.COM

Première règle du fight club : Tu ne parles pas du fight club. Deuxième règle du fight club : Tu ne parles pas du fight club. Bonne nouvelle : Sebastian est de retour. Mauvaise nouvelle : Tyler Durden aussi...

This limited edition hardcover in slipcase features 90 pages of bonus content and new cover art by David Mack. Some imaginary friends never go away . . . Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won''t last long, the wife has seen to that. He''s back where he started, but this go-round he''s got more at stake than his own life.The time has arrived . . . Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015--the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem. Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk''s freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon.... In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."-THE ATLANTIC "The book is fantastic, my highest recommendation.... Excellent work by Cameron Stewart and David Mack, and by our awesome friends at Dark Horse Comics."-Brian Michael Bendis "If Tyler Durden needed a resurgence, there''s no time like the present for his return... Fight Club 2 is a comic that taps back into everything great about the source material, and one that makes Tyler Durden''s warm nihilistic embrace a welcome draw back into a familiar world of cynicism, violence, and anarchy...."Tyler Lives," and I couldn''t be happier by the prospect of more bedlam."-NEWSARAMA "Palahniuk is delivering a worthy sequel to his most beloved story."-THE NERDIST "Entertaining."-COMIC BOOK RESOURCES "Excellent."-THE BEAT "An amazing piece of work. You do not want to miss out on this."-COMICVINE "Perfect."-FORCES OF GEEK "We have a worthy sequel on our hands.... A must read."-COMICOSITY "Cameron Stewart truly outdoes himself on every level in this book."-BLOODY DISGUSTING "Clever and beautiful."-COMICS ALLIANCE

An all-new collection of short fiction from the author of Fight Club, that also doubles as an adult coloring book! New York Times bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight bizarre tales, illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Lee Bermejo (The Suiciders), Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy), and more. Each story is paired with pieces of colorable original art, nearly 50 in all! Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover edition: "Maybe between your colors, the artists'' designs, and my stories we can create something that endures. Something worth keeping. Let''s create a well-bound book that can sit on any shelf and be available for a new generation to discover and enjoy." Palahniuk''s short stories are provocative and not for the faint of heart. (His public readings are notorious for making audience members pass out.) Kirkus Reviews described Palahniuk''s 2015 short story collection Make Something Up: Stories You Can''t Unread as "Pathos and panic and penitence from one of the darkest and most singular minds in contemporary American lit." Bait continues in that vein with stories about: A passenger on the Titanic who finds a surgical solution to the obstacle of "women and children first". A Hollywood star whose fading brand faces a viral (and scatological) internet campaign. An animal psychic who coaxes a statement from a fish that witnessed a political assassination. Increasingly terrible birthday gifts that place a girl at the center of an extinction-level event. Reviews for 2015''s Make Something Up: "Palahniuk finds sincerity among his characters even in disreputable occurrences."-- Publishers Weekly "He makes it absolutely clear that he''s still the man who wrote ''Guts,'' the infamous story that made fans pass out at readings." --Kirkus Reviews Reviews for Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk''s freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon . . . In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."--The Atlantic "Chuck Palahniuk''s Fight Club 2 is as much a kinetic read as it is a pivotal watermark for the comic industry to receive such a high-profile cross-media debut. We are Jack''s eager eyes."--Paste

La felicità è una bomba a orologeria e il mondo un luogo disseminato di candele profumate, lucine difettose e prese elettriche sovraccariche pronte a far divampare un incendio. O perlomeno questo è il mondo dei personaggi di Palahniuk, che non cede mai al sorriso di plastica del pagliaccio americano e nemmeno al grande sogno degli eroi venuti dalla provincia. Ma scava più a fondo e vede la desolazione dietro le coppie felici, l''astuzia perversa dei bambini, la crudeltà dei figli e l''egoismo dei genitori, le bugie che cementano i matrimoni più di qualsiasi promessa nuziale. I suoi adolescenti sono compulsivi consumatori di show televisivi a premi dove il pubblico succhia LSD da francobolli di Hello Kitty e i partecipanti possono vincere tutto fino a morire. Sono ragazzini disturbati che provano un nuovo tipo di sballo, l''elettroshock con defibrillatore, oppure desiderano raggiungere il padre morente solo per potergli raccontare un''ultima barzelletta crudele. Sono adulti grassi che sposano modelle ritardate, lavoratori dalle personalità di scimmia o coyote, e donne che sposano uomini che non sono una cima "con lo stesso spirito con cui si può assumere un dipendente a tempo indeterminato". Chuck Palahniuk torna al racconto breve dispiegando alla massima potenza tutti i suoi poteri di narratore, e noi lettori siamo assolutamente felici che non li usi a fin di bene.

Twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In ''Zombies'', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In ''Knock, Knock'', a son hopes to tell one last off-colour joke to his dying father , while in ''Tunnel of Love'', a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing ''relief'' to dying clients. And in ''Excursion'', Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.

Certains amis ne vous laissent jamais en paix... La première règle du Fight Club, vous vous souvenez ? Mais ça, c''était avant. La cendre des glorieuses explosions d''antan est depuis longtemps retombée. Nous sommes dix ans après la fin de la première histoire. Marla et " celui qui se fait appeler Sebastian " sont désormais mariés, englués dans une haïssable petite existence bourgeoise. Ils ont une maison, un petit garçon, sans doute une carte d''électeur – plus rien ne les distingue de leurs voisins. Sebastian, cependant, n''est pas tout à fait guéri : il gobe des petites pilules pour juguler les symptômes de son ancienne schizophrénie. Marla, qui trompe son ennui en participant à des groupes de parole bizarroïdes, les remplace par du sucre et de l''aspirine : une façon comme une autre de faire revivre Tyler Durden, afin qu''il revienne foutre le bordel dans leur univers trop bien rangé. Roman graphique encensé par la critique, Fight Club #2 ne reprend pas seulement les choses là où son prédécesseur les avait laissées. Ce bréviaire d''une génération perpétuellement maudite, critique au vitriol d''une société vendue au recyclage cynique est servi par un dessin d''une précision et d''une force étourdissantes. Palahniuk s''y montre de nouveau au sommet de son art. Le démon est de retour !

**Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to _Fight Club_!** Tyler''s been around a lot longer than anyone realized . . . To gain admittance to the current generation of Project Mayhem, Marla is more than happy to provide Sebastian with plenty of bruises, and thus, the search for their son begins . . . *One of IGN and io9''s Most Anticipated Comics of 2015! Ever wanted to know what happened to the anonymous narratorand his constant companion, Tyler Durdenof _Fight Club_? Thanks to writer Chuck Palahniuk, artist Cameron Stewart and Dark Horse Comics, you''ll get the answer in _Fight Club 2_.�Playboy

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced." From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help." Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan''s most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of gratification for days on end. What''s not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell''s plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller. The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn’t over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone. Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.

The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts.

**Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to _Fight Club_!** For the past decade Tyler Durden''s been sneaking out of Sebastian''s subconscious. Sebastian has a nice wife and a nice kid. He has a nice home in the suburbs. Nice-enough neighbors. Now all that''s going up like so much potassium permanganate. * Rize or Die! * One of IGN and io9''s Most Anticipated Comics of 2015! * Variant cover by Francesco Francavilla!

"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride." —Seattle Times Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all—boyfriend, career, loyal best friend—until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book’s characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design, embarking on a ride they’ll never forget.

En Nana , Palahniuk ha afinado al máximo su oído para crear una parábola tan importante como disparatada. A Carl Streator le han encargado una serie de artículos sobre la muerte súbita infantil, algo que le resulta familiar pues él mismo perdió a su hijo en circunstancias extrañas. Tan extrañas como que en todas las casas donde ha muerto un bebé hay un ejemplar de una antología de poemas africanos que contiene una nana letal. El periodista, una agente inmobiliaria, su secretaria y el novio de esta emprenderán un hilarante viaje a la caza de todos los ejemplares del libro, incluido el que ahora usted sostiene en sus manos... La crítica ha dicho... «Corra a comprar libros de Palahniuk. Vaya a la biblioteca del barrio. Pídaselos a un amigo. Róbelos. Pero léalos. Ya está tardando.» ABC «Como Kurt Vonnegut, Palahniuk hace juegos malabares sobre el nihilismo y el idealismo, con un estilo fluido y divertido. Reformula pautas de comportamiento que finalmente adquieren un tono casi místico.» The New York Times «Palahniuk es una de las voces más frescas e intrigantes que han aparecido en mucho tiempo. Retoma el sentido del humor de Vonnegut, el mordaz análisissocial de DeLillo y el surrealismo de Pynchon para construir un puzzle brillante, brutal y muy personal.» New York Newsday «Cuando uno lee a Palahniuk capta que algo sucede en Estados Unidos que, cada tanto, en medio de tanta mentira, surge alguien que dice la verdad. Palahniuk, como Denis Johnson, poetizan, casi sin darse cuenta, lo que sucede debajo de las autopistas iluminadas, en esos barrios oscuros, abandonados. Uno entra en sus libros limpio y sale sangrando, hediondo, dañado, vivo.» Alberto Fuguet

“As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you''d expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she''s waking up in Hell. Literally. Madison soon finds that she shares a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by their doomed fate, like an afterschool detention for the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell--full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center--to confront the Devil himself.

Tell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette''s syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman''s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.

"Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny, Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief." —San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, Branson will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah.