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For Bendorf, who is in the process of transitioning to the stage name Christine Lacey, this joke may become a reality. She will spend her summer performing nine shows in ten weeks with the College Light Opera Company on the Cape Cod, and then plans to give acting in New...
With “Tell-All,” Palahniuk picks a subject with very little mystery left in it—Hollywood’s Golden Age and its decline. In a culture where the public is inundated with the 24-hour news cycle, paparazzi pulp, and celebrity gossip...
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...
Where this book succeeds most is on the level of satire. Unlike in his previous books, Palahniuk does not show his readers a secret or paranormal world, but instead takes one especially familiar to most modern audiences and exaggerates its flaws to significant comic effect. For example in one scene...
The fact that there are traces of the frenzy around Angelina Jolie or the death of Michael Jackson in this novel certainly make it stronger, but Palahniuk needs to take his satire farther if he is going to be successful with it. He absolutely has the ability to make something...