![]() ![]() Oh, and I’d make the shuffling, mush-mouthed servant an old white lady. “So it occurred to me: Why not rewrite Gone with the Wind with a civil war that results in multiple identity-based nations? I’d make Scarlett O’Hara Hispanic-Shasta Sanchez-and have her pursuing a white Ashley Wilkes she could never find. So many Americans demand safe identity-defined spaces, or outright nations.”The author dived right into specific examples of what he dubs as such: “And this trend has only increased with Calexit, and Keith Ellison’s demand for a black nation in the American Southeast, and Jared Taylor’s advocating for an ethnically white nation, and the Hotep Nation… same deal,” Palahniuk said. ![]() ![]() “The only news I got was via the web, and it was odd being outside the United States looking in. “ Adjustment Day started six years ago when I rented an apartment in Madrid and spent months there, making final revisions to my story collection,” Palahniuk said. Now that he’s got a new novel coming out for the first time in four years, I sat down with Palahniuk to discuss his return to the written word.Īdjustment Day, Palahniuk’s new book, appears to be an expansion on some of the themes he delved into with Fight Club, and it’s a story he’s wanted to tell for a long time. ![]() From the searing satire of Fight Club to the bleak comedic horror of Haunted and Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk has long been considered one of the more affecting and abrasive of contemporary authors. ![]()
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