Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color

An all-new collection of short fiction from the author of Fight Club, that also doubles as an adult coloring book!||New York Times|bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents|Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color|,|his first ever coloring book for adults.|Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of|Lullaby|and|Fight Club|. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight bizarre tales, illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (|Lady Killer|), Lee Bermejo (|The Suiciders|), Duncan Fegredo (|Hellboy|), and more. Each story is paired with pieces of colorable original art, nearly 50 in all!Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover edition:|"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."|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|Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread|as "Pathos and panic and penitence from one of the darkest and most singular minds in contemporary American lit."|Bait|continues in that vein with stories about:|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.|Reviews for 2015's|Make Something Up|:|"Palahniuk finds sincerity among his characters even in disreputable occurrences."--|Publishers Weekly|"He makes it absolutely clear that he's still the man who wrote 'Guts,' the infamous story that made fans pass out at readings." --|Kirkus Reviews||Reviews for|Fight Club 2:|"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."--|The Atlantic|"Chuck Palahniuk's|Fight Club 2|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."--|Paste