Fight Club's Afterword.

In copies of Fight Club that were published after 2005, Chuck Palahniuk included a short afterword describing how the book and film impacted his life.  Palahniuk reveals that his short story of Fight Club turned into a novel, and later became a film. Tyler Durden’s character became a new face of rebellion advertisement.  Real fight clubs were discovered in universities and church basements.  Palahniuk received photographs from strangers who were bruised and battered, showing evidence of their own real life fight clubs.  Before writing Fight Club, Palahniuk noticed that bookstores were filled with a number of books aspiring women together in society. The books were about a social model for women to be together and share their stories and their lives. There were barely any books that were about men in society, or men sharing their stories or their lives. He decided he would create a book containing rules and discipline and nothing overly sentimental.  He also wanted his story to have a “hero” type character.  Fight Club was Palahniuk’s first published novel.  It won the 1997 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Awards, and the 1997 Oregon Book Award for best novel.