In 1996, Chuck Palahniuk attended a Santa Rampage in Portland, Oregon, one of several Cacophony Society events that would go on to inspire his novel Fight Club and the idea of Project Mayhem. This November, he’ll appear in a new documentary, SantaCon , which explores how a Bay Area anti-capitalist experiment became a drunken, commercial shitshow. Ahead of the movie’s premiere tonight at DOC NYC, Palahniuk reflects on his early days as a Cacophonist and how the intent went so sideways.

First, a story about Edith Wharton: Days after finishing the manuscript for a new book, she lost it in a fire. Her publisher asked when she’d have the work rewritten, and Wharton replied, “Why bother?” She’d already discovered the ending. The story no longer held any mystery for her.

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