Talking Scared30 Tammi 2024

180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?

Send us a text Yes I put sex in the title to make you download it. Did it work? It shouldn’t be necessary, ‘cos this week’s guest is an absolute literary icon. Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Haunted, Lullaby, Choke, and last year’s Not Forever, But For Now – a writer who helped shape the nihilism and extremity of 90s and noughties fiction. The man who makes people faint with his short stories. He’s here, talking to us! In this conversation Chuck and I roam all over the blasted map of his fiction. We talk about transgression and provocation, about extremity in life and story, about bad reviews, toxic interviews and toxic masculinity. And yes, we talk about “Guts.” This was a privilege. I hope you are shocked and appalled. Enjoy! Other books mentioned: Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk Haunted (2005), by Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby (2002), by Chuck Palahniuk Diary (2003), by Chuck Palahniuk Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2005), by Chuck Palahniuk Adjustment Day (2018), by Chuck Palahniuk Cold Comfort Farm (1932), by Stella Gibbons Rosemary’s Baby (1967), by Ira Levin “The Lottery” (1948), by Shirley Jackson Interview with the Vampire (1976), by Anne Rice Geek Love (1989), by Katherine Dunn Most Delicious Poison: From Spice to Vices – The Story of Nature’s Toxins (2023), by Noah Whiteman Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (2021), by Eric LaRocca Support Talking Scared on Patreon Visit the Talking Scared site Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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291 – Natasha Pulley & No Priests Were Harmed in the Making of this Podcast

No one let the Pope listen to this week’s episode. Our guest is Natasha Pulley, genre-defying author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Bedlam Stacks, The Kingdoms, and now, in the The Salt...

18 Elo 1h 29min

Off Book #23 – Are We Doomed? A Cheerful Guide to Apocalypse, with Ben Bradford

Happy Friday! Let’s talk about the end of the world. Our guest is Ben Bradford, creator and host of Are We Doomed? – the new hit podcast examining the existential risks facing humanity. “Dammit...

14 Elo 1h 15min

290 – Liam Higginson & Awful Things in Lonely Farmhouses

Finally, we dare venture to the darkest land of all. Wales! After years of avoiding the terror of the Valleys, Liam Higginson takes us to The Hill in the Dark Grove – his debut novel of isolation, fo...

11 Elo 1h 14min

289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid

This may be my scariest episode ever! We’ve covered non-fiction before, but rarely is the truth more frightening than the stories we tell. This week it just might be… cos Annie Jacobsen is here wi...

4 Elo 1h 14min

Let Us Palaver #10 – Wolves of the Calla Debrief

In our main Wolves of the Calla Deep Dive, we came within touching distance of the Dark Tower’s biggest secret yet. Chris doesn’t know what to think, which is just where Nat and I want him. So we st...

31 Heinä 41min

The Dark Tower Deep Dive #10 – Wolves of the Calla

Hallelujah, come commala, we’re back together! Finally, after stopping for side missions with Jack Sawyer, and a pair of stories of Roland’s younger days, we’re back in Midworld’s here-and-now to ...

28 Heinä 2h 30min

288 – Danielle Giles & A Spoonful of Skulldust (Makes the Medicine Go Down)

Time for a horrid history lesson. Daniell Giles is the author of medieval gothic Mere (2025), and the brand-new Restoration horror-show, Gentle Things. In this episode she talks about the nightmar...

21 Heinä 1h 11min

287 – Megan Bontrager & The Cave of Cosmic Narcissism

I hope you have your headtorch this week – cos we’re going to some deep, dark places. Megan Bontrager’s debut novel, The Sea Hides its Dead, is a story of a mysterious cave, an unprepared expediti...

14 Heinä 1h 15min