Chuck Palahniuk on The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, and Commodification (This Is Horror Podcast)

In this podcast Chuck Palahniuk talks about The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, commodifying human experience, and much more. [3:01] Early life lessons growing up in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington [6:55] Consuming media and processing story [10:34] Marketing: a big obstacle [11:52] Not fitting into neat genre boxes [12:56] Horror [14:27] Fear and attraction to conflict [16:20] Demand for consensual fighting [16:57] The Invention of Sound [19:19] Writing method [25:15] Playboy magazines / Children of the … [27:01] Criterium by Tyler Jones [28:23] Cemetery Dance [29:23] Online book tour [31:15] Consider This [32:08] Getting revenge on the cruel professor [33:27] Not writing to be liked but writing to be remembered [35:34] Questioning whether going down the right path [38:11] Happy Birthday, David Fincher [39:18] The Invention of Sound [43:20] Dead parents/dead children [47:26] Commodification [51:48] Beautiful You [53:45] Commodifying death social media site [1:01:06] Hollywood sound effects [1:04:18] Max Booth, via Patreon, asks about Rant sequels [1:05:31] Damned and Doomed [1:07:22] Zac Dozier, via Patreon, asks about paying things forward [1:09:19] Chad Lutzke, via Patreon, asks where Chuck draws the line with disturbing content [1:11:52] Timothy Fox, via Patreon, asks about humanity being responsible for its own problems and a wilful refusal to learn [1:13:45] Cautionary tale endings [1:15:08] Lucas Milliron, via Patreon, asks about whether genre-bending works have helped or hindered Chuck’s early success Subscribe to This Is Horror Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3oSSiMJ... Subscribe to This Is Horror Podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Support This Is Horror Podcast on Patreon:   / thisishorror   Check out the archives on the website: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/catego...