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  • SF Weekly
    The Price of Truth

    Deanna Johnson agreed to testify about a murder suspect. In return, she lost her home, her son, and her dog.

    By Ashley Harrell
  • Dallas Observer
    Terrain of Grief

    At the Gold Star Family Support Center, families of fallen soldiers will never be told they need to stop mourning.

    By Megan Feldman
  • Houston Press
    We Got Us a Convoy

    Back in the good old days, truckers didn't need to carry chihuahuas in their cabs.

    By Paul Knight

So much of what Chuck Palahniuk writes is unprintable in family newsweeklies such as this one that writers have to use abstract terms like "transgressive" to describe the suck of guts that sounds in the bottom of his stories. Legend has it that when he reads his short story "Guts" (concerning graphic masturbation accidents), it makes people faint. Or vomit. But that's just the shock of the slaughter; after that, you get the real meat. Palahniuk's new book, Snuff, is about an aging porn star attempting to set a gangbang record — 600 men in one day. Palahniuk reads from Snuff at the Mad Art Gallery (2727 South 12th Street; 314-367-6731 or www.left-bank.com) at 7 p.m. tonight. The first 150 people to purchase Snuff through Left Bank Books will receive a ticket allowing them to have their books signed, along with up to two other Palahniuk titles. Have fun.
Tue., May 27, 2008

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