Saturday, May 06, 2006
Peel back the sheets
A brief side-track. Author Chuck Palahniuk was in Galway last weekend for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature and in the Guardian’s Weekend magazine he has a short, thoughtful and funny piece on his weekend experience - being heckled, “nothing but an American cultural imperialist!”, on being a terrible pornographer, and “sharing a bed with Martin Amis and Amy Tan, Anne Rice and Irvine Welsh, Douglas Coupland, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, David Sedaris and Michel Houellebecq.”
Pete Baker @ 01:35 PM
so this highbrow intellectual writer goes to galway for a book club thingy, and ends up examining the sheets and mattress in some shit hole hotel? thats all i could gather from the piece. i’ve been in hotels in donegal like that (no names) and the beds practically walked out of the room on their own.
Posted by on May 06, 2006 @ 04:24 PMI’m not really surprised. I think any self respecting bag would run out faced with an attitude (never mind a name) like “bag’site’s”.
Posted by on May 06, 2006 @ 04:48 PMEr…., um…., I think you might have missed his point, bag’shite.
Posted by on May 06, 2006 @ 05:20 PMI liked that Guardian piece a lot. I wonder what the tally on fainters is when he reads ‘Guts’ these days? Last I heard, it was in the region of 70.
Didn’t make it to Cuirt but Rattlebag recorded an interview with him and will be broadcasting it soon.Posted by on May 08, 2006 @ 01:58 PMI liked it a lot too, Sinéad :)
Thanks for the heads-up on the Rattlebag interview.. I’ll keep an ear open for it.
Posted by on May 08, 2006 @ 09:23 PM
