Literary cool guy Chuck Palahniuk, aka the writer my high school boyfriend tried to impress me with (hope you're well, Evan), will drop by Powell's to celebrate the release of his satirical parable Shock Induction. The promotional copy describes the book's central figures as overachievers at a "seemingly reputable high school" who are disappearing, lost to apparent suicides. Of course, if Palahniuk has anything to do with it, something even more cynical and weird lurks under the novel's surface. Whatever your opinion of Palahniuk, who self-describes his work as "transgressional fiction," you'd be hard-pressed not to be the teensiest bit interested in what he has to say. Lean into that itch of intrigue at this event.