Fight Club author, whose previous work has made people faint at public readings, to publish Bait – eight stories in the famously ‘mindful’ genre
Adult colouring-in books have been hailed as part of the trend for all things mindful, a hobby to help us relax and de-stress. But an unlikely new addition to the genre from Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk – the writer has recounted making audience members faint after reading from a particularly disturbing short story – is unlikely to pour oil on any troubled waters out there.
Out this autumn, Palahniuk’s Bait, subtitled Off-Colour stories for You to Colour, is both the author’s first colouring book for adults, and his second short-story collection. Containing eight tales, which publisher Dark Horse said were “provocative and not for the faint of heart”, Bait includes a story about a passenger on the Titanic “who finds a surgical solution to the obstacle of ‘women and children first’”, and one about a Hollywood star “whose fading brand faces a viral (and scatological) internet campaign”.
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