how to win the lottery s6e1 – fight club by chuck palahniuk
our delaware module (suck shit, sufjan stevens #2) gets off to a questionable start, geographically speaking, with fight club by chuck palahniuk. joey kicks things off by sharing some delaware facts before he and shreds discuss their history with palahniuk and what his writing meant to people coming of age in the 90s and 00s. we talk about fincher’s adaptation (what it does better and what it does worse), the leap in logic necessary to fully get behind the plot, and the wrong “lessons” people “learned” from this story. we discuss how overt the twist is (once you know it’s coming), why it ruined that twist for all subsequent art, and why the timing of its reveal helps it work as well as it does. shreds brings up taylor swift but doesn’t want to hear joey’s explanation. joey talks about the time he met chuck palahniuk. shreds talks about the time he was in a fight. we open a mailbag that leaves shreds walking on air, and we once again discuss the horny module.
reading list for season six
fight club by chuck palahniuk
the book of unknown americans by cristina henríquez
sunburn by laura lippman
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