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

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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James dives deep with "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk, exploring the layers of his latest satire, “Not Forever, But for Now”. They venture into writing, the dance of life, and the poignant undercurrents of identity, loneliness, and what it drives us to.

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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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