Palahniuk’s first novel, Fight Club , made him a cult figure. Fight Club was faithfully adapted into a very successful film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Palahniuk has gone on to write Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Lullaby, Fugitives And Refugees , and most recently, Diary . Palahniuk uses short [...]

Kate Gray published by Blue Light Press Winning the Blue Light Chapbook Contest in 1999, Where She Goes is a small collection of poems dealing with the wisdom a rower might glean from mornings spent on the Willamette River. These poems deal with the intersection of the natural world, love and loss. The second half [...]

Author Amy Schutzer published by Calyx Books in cooperation with Writing services. A love story that weaves the pasts of two young women in an imaginative and dreamy mix of memory and story. “A poetic and authentic exploration of heartbreak and healing.” Elen Bass, author of The Courage to Heal “Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writers pushed [...]

Mitch Luckett published by Media Weavers A particularly imaginative murder mystery set in the Pacific Northwest but going far beyond the bounds of any genre. “…a cross between Carl Hiassen and Edward Abby…a magically realistic whodunit . . .” Mike Houck, Urban naturalist and editor of Wild in the City, a guide to Portland (OR) [...]

Ken Foster published by William Morrow A collection of short stories linked by a narrator who looks at the world from slightly off to the side. “Darkly comic and dead accurate..hitting the bull’s eye from increasingly odd angles and greater and greater distances.” Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours “Everything I know about living I [...]

Chuck Palahniuk published by Norton A story of identity and re-invention of the self, the third novel published by this American cult writer, this novel was written before Fight Club . Invisible Mosters takes readers on a wild ride through the medicine cabinets of wealthy homes, the intimate details of sex change operations, and the [...]

Jennifer Lauck published by Pocket Books A memoir of a childhood particular to the family story of seventies America. “…one girl’s complicated and almost unbelievable childhood, reclaimed in profound triumph.” Kirkus Reviews “At the table with Tom Spanbauer and Dangerous Writers, I am two things. Afraid and in awe. Great teaching and greater learning happens [...]

Joanna Rose published by Scribner Family life in the counterculture of the sixties, revealed through the eyes of a child. “A gloriously descriptive novel, packed with colorful details of the dream the era of ‘free love’ left behind.” Redbook “Tom Spanbauer and Dangerous Writing led me into the story I wanted to write, and showed [...]

Tom Spanbauer published by Grove Press The long-awaited follow-up to Tom Spanbauer’s enchanting The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon , In The City Of Shy Hunters is a novel ten years in the making, praised as “utterly fresh” a haunting and undeniably powerful work by Kirkus Reviews . Set against the urban [...]

Chuck Palahniuk published by: Norton Description The first novel by a writer who has become a cult figure, Fight Club gets deep inside the world of a rage-filled young Everyman. Made into a film with Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.