Palahniuk mines our free-floating anxiety, horror of the ever-accelerating Real, and returns with literary artifacts.

...[Palahniuk] has packaged the most important lessons he learned over the years and has communicated them in a way that others can digest easily.

For that author who wants to expand his or her horizons and try something new, Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk is the book to pick up.

In Consider This, he pays generous homage to authors, coaches and editors who kept him on his unorthodox path when conventional publishing houses wouldn't touch him.

Best known to readers as the author of Fight Club, the cult novel which has become something of a bible to a generation of Angry Young Men, Palahniuk here swaps shock value for an odd sentimentalism.

What kind of book is this? It's a memoir with writing tips thrown in the mix, or vice versa.

...this collection of [Palahnuik's] writings about writing include a number of freakishly interesting anecdotes — like the time Stephen King’s hand started bleeding during a marathon signing, where are chapters that address craft, from ideas to execution. 'Troubleshooting Your Fiction,' for example, offers advice for such problems as 'Your Narrative Voice is Boring' and 'Your Stories Meander and Ramble.' This book is a master class. It will make you a better writer. It will make you a better reader..

A journalist by training, Palahniuk is known for a minimalist, conversational writing style and transgressive fiction featuring marginalized characters, but the strategies collected here can benefit any student of writing. Ranging from the nuts-and-bolts mechanics to the community of readers, his advice is highly detailed and practical, if occasionally tinged with romantic notions that belie his literary reputation for nihilism.

Palahniuk...delivers a fine book on writing, full of advice and anecdotes garnered from his career as a novelist, that will help both those aspiring to write bestsellers and those hoping to write from the heart.