Rant

Chuck Palahniuk’s latest book, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, is out in bookstores today. And this is me telling y’all you ought to be reading Mr. Palahniuk’s work, if ya ain’t already. Moriarty at AICN gave Rant a smashing good review, saying:

“Has it really been eleven years since Chuck Palahniuk first fired FIGHT CLUB into the brain pan of popular consciousness? In the years since, he s become one of the most interesting and reliably outr authors working, and even if I haven t loved every one of his books, I find him to be consistently engaging, and I m always hoping that he ll write another stunner, something else that will knock me on my ass.

And with RANT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF BUSTER CASEY, he s done exactly that.”

I can’t wait. And in checking out stuff on Rant this afternoon I stumbled upon this bit of news at Palahniuk’s website, The Cult:

“”Choke” Is Going Into Production!!!

… Chuck emailed me a few days ago to give me the exclusive news that Choke is going into production on June 18th! Sam Rockwell is set to star, and first-timer Clark Gregg will be directing. A little history on Gregg: He wrote the Robert Zemeckis thriller What Lies Beneath and, as an actor, is a regular on the hit TV show “The New Adventures of Old Christine.” Gregg adapted Choke into screenplay form and has been championing the project for years now. God bless him and his tenacity as the film has finally been greenlit for production and Gregg will be getting his debut in the directing chair. Chuck also went on to tell me that the mom is most likely Glenn Close, Annette Bening or Julianne Moore.”

Choke is the only book of Palahniuk’s I haven’t read all the way through yet - something sidetracked me and I haven’t picked it back up - so I dunno how good that casting is, but Palahniuk’s work is pretty inherently cinematic so I’m suprised we haven’t seen every one of his books turned into films yet. Though I do believe they’re all in some form of development.
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