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Fight Club Author Chuck Palahniuk Weighs In On The Film’s Censored Chinese Ending

Spoilers ahead for both the book and film! Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a 1996 novel that was adapted into a film of the same title in 1999, and went on to become a cult classic. The film adaptation recently released on China’s biggest streaming service, but with a very different ending—according to a placard that is edited in, the authorities arrest the characters and foil their bombing plot. In reality, the movie ends with a death and an explosion. But most surprising is perhaps how unsurprised Palahniuk is by this revision—he says the Chinese edit is more closely aligned with how he ended the book, and remarked that his books are censored, edited, and challenged every year, both in the U.S. and abroad, but those instances don’t get nearly as much attention as this one.

See The Cover For The Miniaturist Author Jessie Burton’s New Novel

Jessie Burton is the author of The Miniaturist, a bestselling book that was adapted into a TV series starring Anya Taylor-Joy, and if you loved that novel then good news—her new book The House of Fortune is set to release this year and is a standalone companion to The Miniaturist. It’s set in 1705 Amsterdam and is centered in Thea Brandt, who is about to come of age and finds her own passions while struggling to unravel family secrets. You can check out the cover now. The book releases August 30th, 2022.

‘Absurd’: Author Of ‘Maus’ Condemns Tennessee School’s Decision To Pull Book On Holocaust

Art Spiegelman, the author of the comic Maus, which portrays his parents’ experiences living through the Holocaust, has responded to the news of a Tennessee school district’s decisions to pull his book from the curriculum. Spiegelman said, “This is not about left versus right…This is about a culture war that’s gotten totally out of control.” The book was removed due to objections over language, nudity, and dark themes.