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[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

That would probably be Haunted. Yeah, I see what you mean.

That said, Palahniuk will always have a special place in my heart for introducing me to one of my favorite authors, Amy Hempel. (See eg https://www.csub.edu/~mault/palahniuk.htm )

Also, from a Reddit AmA, my favorite quote about the writing process. Someone asked a question along the line of, how do you know when you are done writing? When it’s polished enough? And he answered something along the lines of “I have a simple rule. A writing project isn’t done until I want to kill myself and everyone else involved with it”.

I was in the final stages of writing my doctoral dissertation back then, and boy did it resonate with me.