An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk: “It’s doubtful that Chuck Palahniuk – literary genius, torchbearer for the nihilistic generation and Portland’s answer to Irvine Welsh, with his haemorrhaging ribbons of toxic chiffon prose that sits somewhere in the vicinity of “Naked Lunch, A Clockwork Orange and Last House On The Left” – had any idea of the storm of controversy that was brewing as he dotted the i and crossed the final t on his anthemic Fight Club manuscript. But, then again, he probably had little inkling when one afternoon he was cruising down the Portland Freeway and a driver – “a freeway sniper”- slowly pulled up alongside him and pointed a gun directly at his head, that he would become the avatar against a violent world and society.” Between The Lines