The influences behind Fight Club

Following one thread, 2 works from Fight Club to The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. Back to all 31 works

1. 

   1991

   The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

   Tom Spanbauer

   Late 20th-century American. United States. Written in English.

   A novel narrated by a bisexual half-Indian youth in 19th-century Idaho, written in Spanbauer's incantatory 'dangerous writing' voice.

   What it handed down

   To Fight Club (1996)

   Stylistic influence, well documented.

   Palahniuk wrote Fight Club while attending Tom Spanbauer's Portland workshop, where he learned 'dangerous writing': drawing on painful personal material and using repeated phrases as refrains. Spanbauer's novel is the published model of that technique.

   Where it came from

   The line stops here: spanbauer's method comes from Gordon Lish's workshops rather than a single documented text.

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