Fein fights to stop school shootings

Throughout his 30-year career, Fein has worked with everyone from workplace management staffs to the U.S. Secret Service, researching targeted violence, and aiming for prevention. In the 1990s, he and his colleagues examined every case of assassination or attempted assassination in the last 50 years. They looked over these cases in a systematic way, trying to understand how a person moves from the idea of attack to the actual deed. The group interviewed many assassins and would-be assassins in a

Palahniuk's dark "Lullaby"

I had expected the style of “Lullaby” to be similar to the movie “Fight Club.” For better or for worse, I wasn’t much surprised. The premise of “Lullaby” is very different from that of “Fight Club,” but the style is similar. Palahniuk’s work is dark, disturbing and thought-provoking, but consistently humorous. One suspects that he’s laughing at the world. The plot and themes are quite upsetting, but Palahniuk writes with such humor and matter-of-fact-ness that I find myself somewhat desensitized