American novelist — author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby — the most prominent American transgressive fiction writer since Bret Easton Ellis — who combines dark humor, body horror, and social critique.
Creates the post-Fight Club transgressive American novel — Palahniuk's fiction (extreme situations, unreliable narrators, social critique through disgust) is the most commercially successful transgressive American fiction since American Psycho; Fight Club's cultural impact through the Fincher film exceeds its literary status.
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