Stranger than fiction: true stories by Chuck Palahniuk

Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780385722223
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2005-05-09T05:00:00+00:00

{In Her Own Words} “One time,” Juliette Lewis says, “I wanted to get to know someone better by writing down questions to him . . .” She says, “These questions are more telling about me than anything I could write in a diary.” Juliette says this on an antique sofa in a rented house in the Hollywood Hills, a very white and vertical, a very Getty Museum house-stark modern but full of her antique furniture-a house she’s renting with her husband, Steve Berra, until they can move into their new home near Studio City. She’s holding a handwritten list she’s just found, and reads: “Did you ever stab someone or cut them intentionally with a sharp object?” She reads: “Do you like asparagus?” She reads: “Do you have a middle name?” She drinks chai. She doesn’t watch television. She loves playing cards, King’s Corner or Kings Around the Corner. She uses that fancy new toilet paper, Cottonelle, which feels like you’re using a cashmere sweater. In the basement is Steve’s severed head-a very realistic replica left over from a skateboard video and made by the same team that made Juliette’s pregnant stomach for the movie The Way of the Gun. From the list, Juliette reads: “Do cats frustrate you as pets, or do you admire their independence?” Over the past twenty-four hours, she’s talked about her family, her father (Geoffrey Lewis), her career, the Scientology thing, getting married, and writing songs. The songs are important because after years of being scripted, these are her words now. Juliette’s mother, Glenis Batley, says, “Okay, this is the great story.” This over breakfast in Los Angeles. Glenis drinks lots of coffee and has lots of red hair and is still the lovely woman who once modeled for an old photograph Juliette has framed at home. Glenis says, “I got pregnant, and I was on this incredible diet that was absolutely pure, but I didn’t really want anyone around. I noticed the contractions were five minutes apart so I called, and I got this one doctor that I didn’t want, and he said that he’d be there right away. He said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t push.’ So I went and I sort of reclined, and along comes the next contraction, and I get this irresistible urge to push, and I think, ‘One little push won’t hurt.’ So she’s born. And she’s very noisy. Anyway, I’m holding this infant, and I nearly drop her, and now she’s really sure that I don’t know what I’m doing, so she’s crying. And it’s the first light of morning, and the doves are cooing, and up to then I hadn’t known what her name was . . . Juliette!” She says, “I decided to spell it the French way because the tragedy sucks.” From her list, Juliette reads: “Did you ever break a guy’s nose?” She reads: “Would you say you won more fights than you’ve lost?” In her kitchen, grinding coffee beans, Juliette says, “When I was growing up, what influenced me were all these musicals.

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