Who: Chuck Palahniuk
What: Online book launch of Fight Club 3 (Premiere Collections, April 2020, $40 with autographed bookplate)
Where: Facebook
When: Wednesday, April 29, free, 5:00
Why: Washington native Chuck Palahniuk’s book launches are legendary, filled with cult fanatics who come dressed as characters from his novels, ready to answer trivia questions to win such items as signed body parts. The author of such highly original and strange books as Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Rant, Snuff, Adjustment Day, and the forthcoming The Invention of Sound in addition to the memoir Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different, Palahniuk is most well known for his 1996 novel, Fight Club, which was turned into a successful 1999 film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, and Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer. Palahniuk has been expanding the story over the last five years as a comic-book series and graphic novel with artists Cameron Stewart, David Mckaig, Nate Piekos, and David Mack. Fight Club 2 came out in hardcover in 2016, and Fight Club 3 was just released April 14; Palahniuk, who participated in a brief twi-ny talk ten years ago, will be launching the book, which focuses on Marla, on his Facebook page on April 29 at 5:00. You can expect the unusual from Palahniuk, who always delivers. And be sure to follow the rules of Fight Club, because you know what happens if you don’t.