Stranger Than Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk
<p>Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise <i>Stranger than Fiction</i>, his first nonfiction collection, prove just <i>how</i>
 different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling.
Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson
and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the
big-budget film production of the movie <i>Fight Club</i>; life as an
assembly-line drivetrain installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by
night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent
world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of
iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting
circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer?each
essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or
observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary
talents.</p>