Chalk Diary

<p>Long regarded as one of the more livable and lively cities in the country Austin's only constant is change a state of play that has instigated endless and passionate arguments about whether that change is for the better worse neither or both. In a book that spans a little over a decade one roving former freelance writer offers some insights about the city's future as told through a decade's worth of enlightening and occasionally just disgusting forays into subcultures both online and off. Adam Schragin's first collection <em>Chalk Diary</em> takes a temperature read of the times first through a lens of local music journalism - exploring death metal psy-trance and regular folk rock - and gradually expanding in scope to investigate both homegrown - and national - enclaves of white nationalism populist and far left politics and radical feminism.</p>