The first collection of non-fiction by the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary Chuck Palahniuks world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Non-Fiction prove just how d ifferent, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Enco unters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lew is; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film produc tion of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train ins taller by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; t he underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circu mstances of his fathers murder and the trial of his killer - each ess ay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or o bserved by one of Americas most flagrantly daring and original litera ry talents.