Chuck Palahniuk on BBC World this Friday

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HARDtalk Extra

Fridays @ 03:30~; 08:30; 14:30; 18:30 & 23:30 GMT
~ Not Asia Pacific or South Asia

Each week HARDtalk Extra will profile the personalities that make the news, 
leading figures from the arts and entertainment, scientists and overnight 
success stories. HARDtalk Extra asks why the spotlight fell on them.


Friday 15th September
Chuck Palahniuk came to world attention when his book Fight Club, a dark 
satire on violence in American society, was turned into a Hollywood film 
starring Brad Pitt. Drawing inspiration from writers like Edward Albee, 
Anthony Burgess, Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh, Palahniuk sees himself 
as an author of “transgressional novels”. As he sees it, these are books 
which use shock tactics to examine society’s accepted norms. He tells Gavin 
Esler why this aspect of popular culture “died on the vine” after September 
11th.

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2866

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