About the Author

Douglas Keesey is a professor of film and literature at California Polytechnic State University, USA. His published work on American literature includes a book on Don DeLillo and essays on James Dickey, Stephen King, and Thomas Pynchon. Keesey is also the author of books on Catherine Breillat, Brian De Palma, Peter Greenaway, and Paul Verhoeven, as well as on neo-noir and erotic cinema.

Reviews

Douglas Keesy's Understanding Chuck Palahniuk finds deep roots for the author's "wretched excess" in fiction in his very rough childhood.-- "Understanding Chuck Palahniuk"