Friday Linkage

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Survivor) has a new book coming out: Snuff. As part of the jibber jabber in the run up to it, his marketing gang have commissioned some fake porno trailers (including this one).

Here is the book's blurb: "Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic." Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?

Posted by Jack Dyson