"Being a journalist is about telling. It’s about bearing the bad news. Spreading the contagion. The biggest story in history. This could be the end of mass media," muses Carl Streator, the narrator of Lullaby, a book that goes about with savage poise and double espresso urgency. Chuck Palahniuk's latest creation of pop-nihilist genius brandishes the threat of the fatality of the spoken word.
Carl Streator is a middle-aged reporter who has created himself a new life after the tragic, unexplainable deaths of his wife and young child more than two decades ago. Finding work at a large newspaper he is assigned to publish a series of articles on SID’s, sudden infant death syndrome, as a human interest story to attract r
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