Who is Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel was Fight Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name.

Early life

Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather migrated from Ukraine to Canada and then to New York in 1907. Palahniuk grew up living in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington. His parents separated when he was 14 years old, and they subsequently divorced, often l...
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Imgfolklore: chuck palahniuk novel about a gas station clerk who works night shifts and all the strange recurring characters he encounters (he is schizophrenic)
Coldpurp: “the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open” -chuck palahniuk
Sarcasmliving: if you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. -chuck palahniuk
Fernitova: on page 19 of 164 of fight club, by chuck palahniuk
Michalskijen: “the one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” chuck palahniuk, invisible monsters
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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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