Adjustment Day

CHUCK PALAHNIUK RETURNS TO W. W. NORTON COMPANY FOR NEW NOVEL, “ADJUSTMENT DAY”

New York, October 4, 2017—Chuck Palahniuk, who launched his career as a novelist with Fight Club, published by W. W. Norton Company in 1996, and who followed that blockbuster with two more Norton hits, Invisible Monsters and Survivor, both 1999, will return to Norton with his forthcoming novel, Adjustment Day, to be published in May 2018.

Fight Club put Palahniuk on the map as a transgressive visionary. Now, Adjustment Day blows past all previous markers for impropriety with a brilliant, hilarious, and outrageous story that is perfect for our era. Every reader, of every stripe, will find something in Adjustment Day that is as profoundly wise, funny, and affecting as it is offensive. And, make no mistake, everyone will be offended.

Norton senior editor Amy Cherry, who has worked with Palahniuk over the years on his Norton paperbacks and Invisible Monsters Remix, acquired North American rights, including audio, to the new work from Palahniuk’s literary agent, Edward Hibbert of Donadio and Olson, Inc. She notes, “We could not be more thrilled to welcome Chuck Palahniuk back to Norton. Through mind-bending stories, a wealth of disturbing detail, and a deadly comic touch, Chuck consistently expresses a singular imagination, novelistic dexterity, and cultural truth. His work represents the very finest in fiction and follows in the tradition of Norton classics like A Clockwork Orange.”

Chuck Palahniuk remarks, "W.W. Norton brought my first book, Fight Club, into the world. My next book, Adjustment Day, is to Fight Club what Atlas Shrugged is to The Fountainhead—a bigger package of bold characters and norm-bashing ideas. And it's proof that W.W. Norton and I have great faith in one another. I'm pleased as punch to be working once more with such a brave, ground-breaking publisher."