STORY Palahniuk Updates 'Fight Club' Sequel Status

The author told USA Today that, while the first book was “such a tirade against fathers—everything I had thought my father had not done combined with everything my peers were griping about their fathers,” the sequel—which features the son of the original, unnamed, protagonist—comes from the fact that he “now… finds myself at the age that my father was when I was trashing him” and explores whether the protagonist can be a better father than his own.

Palahnuik also teased a surprise revelation about one of the characters from the original story. “Tyler [Durden] is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into [the original protagonist’s] mind,” he said. Who knew that Fight Club was more supernatural than it seemed…?

Fight Club 2 will launch in April 2015.