Palahniuk is apparently not bothered by these incidents, which have not stopped fans from reading "Guts" or his other works.Ī New York City public school 11th grade teacher was suspended for letting his English class read "Guts". The last fainting occurred on May 28, 2007, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where five people fainted, one of which occurred when a man was trying to leave the auditorium, which resulting in him falling and hitting his head on the door. On his tour to promote Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories in the summer of 2004, he read the story to audiences again, bringing the total amount of fainters up to 53, and later up to 60, while on tour to promote the softcover edition of Diary. It was reported that over 35 people fainted while listening to the readings while holding their breath. While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read "Guts" to his audiences. Palahniuk is known for his transgressive writing style, which covers taboo themes such as violence, sexuality, and mental illness. In 1996, he published his first novel, Fight Club. He attended the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a degree in journalism. It is a tale of violent accidents involving masturbation where the reader is told "to hold his breath" in the very first line. Chuck Palahniuk was born on February 21, 1962, in Pasco, Washington. The book is best known for the short story "Guts", which had been published before the book in the March 2004 issue of Playboy magazine as well as on Palahniuk's website (Palahniuk offered to let them publish another story along with it, but the publishers found the second work too disturbing).
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