3:AM favourite (well okay, Susan favourite) Chuck Palahniuk is on a North American tour, to promote his 10th novel Pygmy, due out in the UK next month:
“I’ve done eyeballs,” Chuck says, “but they’re kind of small.
“For a while, I bought thousands of these truly hideous fake arms. They were dripping with blood, and the end of the bone poked through. But when I was on tour in 2004, on just about every stop, I’d been scheduled to read the day before Aron Ralston, who’d written a book about having to amputate his right arm after it got pinned by a boulder while he was hiking.
“When I showed up with my fake arms, people thought I was making fun of Aron, so I had to stop.
“Last year, I’d toss out life-size, inflatable sex dolls and have a contest to see who could blow them up the quickest. It was my way of dressing up the auditorium. After the readings, I’d go out on the streets and see people carrying 200 to 300 of these things on mass transit. I felt like a low-rent Christo.”
This time ’round, it’s penguins.
Further: Interview on KPBS [audio] / Operation Havoc / Anthony Bourdain visits Voodoo Donuts with Chuck Palahniuk / 3:AM interview
First posted: Monday, May 11th, 2009.
