Fight Club
1996 · 208 pages
Men beat each other in basements because nothing else in their lives is real. Palahniuk's narrator fakes illness for the support groups, meets the soap salesman Tyler Durden, and builds an army.
★ 4.8
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Sixty Stories
1981 · 451 pages
A balloon settles over forty-five blocks of Manhattan and New Yorkers read meanings into it. Barthelme's deadpan collages taught two generations of American writers that a story need not make ordinary sense.
★ 5.5