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This author appeared at the 2011 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Chuck Palahniuk“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose – and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel; all the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. Damned imagines a twisted inferno of an afterlife where The English Patient plays on endless repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. Palahniuk's bestselling novels include Tell-All; Pygmy; Snuff; Rant; and Fight Club, which was made into a movie by David Fincher; Diary; Survivor; Invisible Monsters; and Choke, which was made into a film by Clark Gregg. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.On the web: Click Here Share: 
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