July 24: Chuck Klosterman in ATX
The Forrest Four-Cast: July 19, 2019
When I grow up, I want to become a writer. And when I become a writer, I want to become a writer like Chuck Klosterman — someone who weaves together strong opinions about music, sports, pop culture and politics in a style that is equally unconventional and entertaining.
Catch Klosterman at BookPeople in Austin on Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 pm, when he’ll be talking about “Raised in Captivity” with Shea Serrano of the Ringer
According to the press release, “Raised in Captivity” does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, “Raised in Captivity” bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations.
Other Klosterman books include “Fargo Rock City,” “Downtown Owl,” “Killing Yourself to Live” and my personal favorite “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto.”
Innovation-Focused Events in Austin for the Week of July 22
July 22: Austin Hispanic Hackers Meet Up
July 22: Action Design ATX
July 22: Learn to Code: Arrays & Objects
July 22: Austin WooCommerce Meet Up
July 22: Army Futures Command Thank You Austin event
July 22: Introduction to Data Science
July 23: Austin Startup Meet Up
July 23: Introduction to Designing for Time Well Spent
July 23: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
July 23: Austin XR Meet Up
July 23: Social Impact Office Hours
July 23: Austin Developing Product Managers Meet Up
July 23: Austin On Rails
July 23: Meet the Cohort — Italian Global Startup Program
July 24: Chuck Klosterman Book Reading
July 24: Capital Factory Job Fair 2019
July 24: Pizza with Geeks
July 24: Product Management Austin
July 24: Austin IoT Meet Up
July 24: Austin Ethereum Meet Up
July 24: Austin LLVM
July 24: Laugh Hack: A Night Of Laughter and Networking
July 24: Wavemakers: A Music & Entertainment & Tech Celebration
July 25: The Future of Cannabis
July 25: Austin Startup and Tech Summer Mixer
July 25: The Autonomous Resupply Problem
July 25: Austin Sales & Business Development
July 25: NonProfit Tech Club Austin
July 25: Design Office Hours with Sketch ATX
July 25: Austin Big Data AI Meet Up
July 25: Introduction to Python
July 25: Introduction to Digital Marketing
More Upcoming Austin Innovation Events
July 30: Women Who Code Tech Talk: Zero To Hero
July 31: Austin Technology Incubator SEAL 2019 Decision Day
July 31-Aug 2: Kickass Masterclass
August 1: Badge sales begin for SXSW 2020
August 6: Austin Forum on “Technology, Space & Humanity”
August 8: Trends 2019 — The Improv Edition
Sept 6: Salman Rushdie Book Reading
Sept 14: ContentATX3
Sept 19: Mighty Big Day
Sept 30-Oct 1: ARTIFACT
Oct 2–4: ComNet 19
Oct 4–6: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 1
Oct 11–13: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 2
Oct 26–27: Texas Book Festival
Nov 4–8: Austin Design Week
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Nov 19: InnoTech Austin
Jan 12: 2020 Austin Startup Games
March 13–21: SXSW 2020
April 17–19: 2020 Austin Reggae Festival
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
