Novelists on Hollywood
November 27th, 2007
From an essay on how literary novelists feel upon seeing their work adapted for the big screen:
Palahniuk was working as a mechanic when his 1996 novel “Fight Club” was made into a film directed by David Fincher. “I only quit my job … because my phone rang with personal calls all day, and I couldn’t get my real work done,” he said in an e-mail message. “On the day ‘Fight Club’ started filming, my agent sent dozens of white roses to the garage where I worked — that kind of botched my standing among the other mechanics.”
What would have been the appropriate gift for a mechanic on the threshold of graduating to the ranks of the literati, I wonder? A really high-quality spanner set?
November 28th, 2007 at 8:03 am
That…is freaking hilarious.
“They to this day call me Chuck ‘White Rose’ Palahniuk. Bastards.”