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Palahniuk takes his time at the beginning of the novel introducing the character of Katherine Kenton, who seems like a cross between Katharine Hepburn, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lindsay Lohan. In the narration, Coogan discusses her own endless maneuvering to manage Kenton’s movie-star image, calling the actress, “my work-in-progress,” and adding, “My job title is not that of nanny or guardian angel, but I perform duties of both.” The reader follows as she juggles Kenton’s drug use, serial...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

About halfway through, as the plot of the novel gets rolling, a young man, Webster Carlton Westward III, enters Kenton’s life with seemingly suspect intentions. Just as happens often today, Westward positions himself for the opportunistic memoir, the “tell-all” of the title. At this point, Palahniuk proves he still has the incredible ability to build suspense and surprise his reader with twists, though the story moves toward a fairly predictable end, given his hints earlier in the novel. The book ends with Palahniuk’s penchant for the macabre, though...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Fifteen Minutes: What was it like finding out you’d won the Pulitzer Prize for your novel “Tinkers?...

Author: By Liza E. Pincus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writing Wisdom | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...Where did the idea for the novel come from...

Author: By Liza E. Pincus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writing Wisdom | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible to me. Just describing the facts as I knew them took up about half a page, so I had to fill in and imagine. It just unfolded from there. But I had no interest whatsoever in writing an autobiographical novel. I’m not that interested in myself...

Author: By Liza E. Pincus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Writing Wisdom | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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