I was in Minneapolis at the Chuck Palahniuk event for his new gang-bang novel Snuff. Anal-beads and blow-up dolls were given away, as was copies of my book. Chuck was mobbed as usual so I spent the night chatting with Don Pollock whose raunchy/gritty story collection Knockemstiff is also being promoted by Chuck on this tour.

Then there was the artist-designed mini-golf course at the Walker Art Center, a temporary thing just for the summer.

And I saw some small buffalo on the drive to Fargo where I then ate some buffalo. As always, more pics in my Flickr pages.

The Fight Club author just started touring to promote his new novel, Rant, but he’s also promoting books he didn’t write–like, mine. In San Francisco earlier this week, he described Obscene Interiors as, “the funniest, dirtiest, book I have seen in years,” then gave out coppies durring the Q&A. (He’s also giving away Monica Drake’s debut novel, Clown Girl, which I haven’t yet read.) I never thought my book was that dirty, I mean, it’s not like I wrote about guys getting their intestines sucked out through their anus while masturbating in a hot tub.

Join me Monday, May 9th at Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena CA 91101 for his only planned LA appearance. There’s bonus prizes if you come wearing a a wedding dress (males and females), it’s related to the novel somehow. His other book tour dates are here.

In the Sept 06 issue of Blackbook, Fight Club author, Chuck Palahniuk, lists his top 10 book picks over the past 10 years. My collection of online male personal ads, Obscene Interiors, takes 2004. And now I’m taking the rest of the day off to bask in the glow of his approval.

Earlier: Fight Club Author Disappointed

From the Kansas City Star last week:

“You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.”

Chuck Palahniuk chuckles as he says this, steering his pickup down Highway 14 just on the Washington side of the Columbia River. He’s saying you can’t judge an author by his books.

Come to think of it, he’s wearing a black T-shirt that says “Disappointed” in Disney-style script.

Palahniuk (pronounced “paula-nick”) loves the irony of this…

That would be my Disappointed shirt. I gave Chuck one last year after he complimented me on mine at a “Haunted” reading.

At a recent book signing, Chuck Palahniuk gave out BBQ scented air fresheners, steak-shaped shower mats, and flung artificial severed limbs into the audience knocking over drinks and beaming inattentive girls on the head. We need more literary events like that.

Favorite quote of the evening removed from its context: “You won’t see Dakota Fanning look up at Nicole Kidman and say. ‘Mommy, why does my Flintstones toothbrush smell like pussy?’”