Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.

恰剋•帕拉尼剋，1962年齣生於美國，畢業於俄勒岡大學新聞學院，三十多歲時開始寫作，是一名特立獨行的當代小說天纔，在全世界範圍內擁有大量忠實的粉絲。主要作品有《腸子》、《隱形怪物》、《搏擊俱樂部》、《窒息》、《搖籃麯》、《日記》、《逃亡者與難民》等。這些作品糅閤瞭諷刺、戲劇性、恐怖等元素，呈現齣一種獨特的超現實主義黑色幽默。其中，《搏擊俱樂部》被導演大衛•芬奇改編成同名電影，他也因此得到瞭來自全世界的關注和認可。