Dick and Vonnegut in your writing, but maybe that’s my own tastes coming into play) at a time when reality feels more and more like bad versions of the same? Does it spur you to want to go further, or feel as if the world is at war with your work? Related to that, in a sense: How does it feel to write what is, in many ways, absurdist speculative fiction (I always see threads of both Philip K. Is it my fault that history always repeats itself, “First as tragedy, then as farce,” as Napoleon would say? Complete with a dialect-spouting, black-faced old white lady as Mammy. Love sets the plot in motion, and love is the central quest. Sigh. A civil war. A bright young woman torn between the man she wants and the man who wants her. Her ascent to nobility. It’s a rewrite of Gone With the Wind. As Palahniuk sets out on a promotional tour - see dates below - Heat Vision talked to the writer about the book, and its connections to the world around us, and also his previous work.Īdjustment Day feels, in many ways, like a novel made out of the times we’re living in - one in which cult of personality (and a desire to belong to specific tribes) fractures the world people are familiar with, and creates something different - and worse - in its wake. Is this a cautionary tale, a satire, or something else altogether?
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