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Hello and welcome to the Spectators Book Club podcast. I'm Sam Leith, the literary editor of The Spectator. I'm very pleased to have as my guest this week, Chuck Pallaniuk,

the novelist who is known

for Lullaby and Choke and many others, most famously of course Fight Club, which was made into a famous

film. Now, Chuck, the occasion of our speaking to you is not a new book, but a new way of publishing.

As I understand it, you're going to publish your next book via

Substack. Now, for those of our listeners who aren't super tech aficionados, can you explain

what that means? So, Substack is more or less a platform that allows people to put together and

post newsletters. And a lot of newsletters are moving to Substack.

It's a subscription service.

People either subscribe for free content,

or they pay typically between $40 and $60 for an annual subscription

where they get extra content.

I'm going to be posting at least twice a week free content, which is more or less

based on the lectures I give to my writing classes. So if you're never going to come to Portland,

Oregon, you can still kind of get the class for free online. And if you want to get the serialized

novel and a lot of short fiction and a lot of extras,

then you pay $40 for the year.

That's more or less it.

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