Norton, suggested producing a hardcover version of the book, and I saw my chance. But in typical Palahniuk fashion, there's a twist. Jump to twelve years later, and they are finally getting their wish. The book quickly became a fan favorite, and those fans have been clamoring for a hardcover edition ever since. It was released as Palahniuk's third novel, in paperback only, although by that time the chapter-jumping nature of the original had been (reluctantly) abandoned. Ka-ching! After the success of Fight Club and its follow-up, Survivor, Invisible Monsters was a no-brainer. The rest, as they say, is dollar signs and history. That's when he wrote Fight Club, his two-handed, Twin Tower flip-off to the publishing industry. Invisible Monsters Remix is like the Navidson house in House of Leaves: It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Following the plot would mean paging forward and backward, and you'd never know where the story might end.Īs with If You Lived Here, agents just couldn't embrace the dark tone in Chuck's work, and while his voice as a writer got some recognition, nobody was willing to take a chance on him or his crazy book. At the end of Chapter Thirty, she'd be told to jump to Chapter Sixteen. The story would not unspool as a continuous linear series of "and then, and then, and then's." At the end of the first chapter, the reader would be directed to jump to, for example, Chapter Thirty. Chuck describes how the initial draft of the manuscript was inspired by fashion magazines and written while watching MTV. Jump to the preface of Invisible Monsters Remix. The result was Manifesto, a story about a model with a shot-off face which would go on to become Invisible Monsters. Unfazed, Chuck decided to dabble in even darker material. The 700-page monster was his attempt at emulating Stephen King, and was rejected by publishers across the board. Jump to Tom Spanbauer's writers workshop, in which Chuck wrote his first novel, If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already. I'm sure most of you know the backstory, but for those who don't, I'll be cribbing from my own biography of the man. That's because this month sees the release of a radically refashioned 'director's cut' of one of your favorite Chuck Palahniuk novels. The debauched gods of literature have heard your prayers and your RLE (Remix-Less Existence) is about to come to an end. This is it, fans of transgressive transgender madness, the moment you've all been waiting for.
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