Yesterday Chuck Palahniuk was interviewed on CBC Radio One. I was actually trying to listen live yesterday but a work emergency kept me from listening. They have the audio of the interview archived in RealAudio. It's pretty good so far (only a few minutes in) and I like it. In his interview, he had a nice quote about his book Fugitives and Refugees where he said (my paraphrase):

The city wants to present itself as "The City of Roses." What I care about is the underside, "The City of Thorns."