Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color

<b>An all-new collection of short fiction from the author of Fight Club, that also doubles as an adult coloring book!</b><br><br><i>New York Times</i> bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents <i>Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color</i>, <b>his first ever coloring book for adults.</b> Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of <i>Lullaby</i> and <i>Fight Club</i>. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight bizarre tales, illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (<i>Lady Killer</i>), Lee Bermejo (<i>The Suiciders</i>), Duncan Fegredo (<i>Hellboy</i>), and more. Each story is paired with pieces of colorable original art, nearly 50 in all!<br><br>Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover edition: <b>"Maybe between your colors, the artists' designs, and my stories we can create something that endures. Something worth keeping. Let's create a well-bound book that can sit on any shelf and be available for a new generation to discover and enjoy."</b><br><br>Palahniuk's short stories are provocative and not for the faint of heart. (His public readings are notorious for making audience members pass out.) Kirkus Reviews described Palahniuk's 2015 short story collection <i>Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread</i> as "Pathos and panic and penitence from one of the darkest and most singular minds in contemporary American lit." <br><br><b><i>Bait</i> continues in that vein with stories about:</b><br>A passenger on the Titanic who finds a surgical solution to the obstacle of "women and children first". A Hollywood star whose fading brand faces a viral (and scatological) internet campaign. An animal psychic who coaxes a statement from a fish that witnessed a political assassination. Increasingly terrible birthday gifts that place a girl at the center of an extinction-level event.<br><br><b>Reviews for 2015's <i>Make Something Up</i>:</b><br><br>"Palahniuk finds sincerity among his characters even in disreputable occurrences."-- <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"He makes it absolutely clear that he's still the man who wrote 'Guts,' the infamous story that made fans pass out at readings." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br><b>Reviews for <i>Fight Club 2:</i></b><br><br>"At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk's freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon . . . In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."--<i>The Atlantic</i><br><br>"Chuck Palahniuk's <i>Fight Club 2</i> is as much a kinetic read as it is a pivotal watermark for the comic industry to receive such a high-profile cross-media debut. We are Jack's eager eyes."--<i>Paste</i>