Unmasking Shadows with Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Clubs, Killer Families, and Deep Reflections

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this candid episode, James Altucher welcomes back Chuck Palahniuk, a guest who never ceases to inspire introspection long after the conversation has wrapped. As they unpack the twisted humor and darkness of Palahniuk's new book, "Not Forever, But for Now", listeners are invited into a world of professional killer families and the burdens shouldered by young successors. But it doesn't end there. In an episode filled with profound insights and electric dialogues, James and Chuck paint a vivid tapestry of how writing mirrors life, its joys, and its abysses.------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	It's always great having Chuck Palinick.
0:09.8	We always go much deeper than I always expect to go and it's always great.
0:15.5	I always think about it for many months or years afterwards and such a pleasure.
0:21.0	He's the author of Fight Club.
0:22.2	He's the author of a new book, not forever but for now, a great new novel and we talk
0:27.6	about writing and life and the relationship between the two and then the specifics of
0:33.6	it.
0:34.6	We talk about everything.
0:35.6	So here it is.
0:39.6	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:44.4	This is the James Altiger show.
0:56.2	Let's check where are you right now.
0:57.2	Are you in Argonne?
0:58.2	I am in Portland, Oregon.
1:00.2	Are you doing a book tour for this book?
1:02.2	Oh, I'm doing the mother of all book tours.
1:05.1	Do book tours work?
1:07.7	The purpose of book tours was that they got you local promotion and even if you only
1:13.8	got like six people in the store, you got to do the daytime television show locally,
1:19.2	you got to do all the radio shows, the newspaper would cover you, you got all the local market,
1:24.9	you got dumped with free publicity and nowadays there is no coverage for books.
1:29.6	So book tours are kind of useless except for mine because mine draw like a thousand people.
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