Chuck Palahniuk on His New Serial Killer Novel and the One Part He Didn’t Like in the ‘Fight Club’ Movie
variety.comWilliam Earl Chuck Palahniuk’s just-released 20th novel, “Not Forever, But For Now,” is dark and twisted, even for him. The author of “Fight Club” and “Choke” profiles two Welch brothers named Otto and Cecil, who squander their days away in a mansion performing sexual acts on each other and both committing and plotting murder.
Yet their grandfather hopes to recruit them to the family business of changing the course of history through committing atrocities like the death of Princess Diana and 9/11.
Palahniuk spoke to Variety about the subversive ideas he turns into books, censorship in the United States and the one thing he didn’t love from the film adaptation of “Fight Club.” “Not Forever, But For Now” deals with family legacy, which has been something you’ve examined in your work before.
Plus, it seems like in politics and pop culture, it’s been discussed frequently in the last decade, from the Trumps to “Succession” to nepo babies.
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