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Get ready for an evening chock full of real-world despair caged in fabulous satire and humor. We will laugh, hopefully not cry, and definitely pretend we know how to fix the world’s problems, all while celebrating the launch of Eli Grober’s book of essays, This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
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About the book:
Frustrated with the megalomaniacal billionaire abandoning our deteriorating Earth for an unlivable Mars? Confused by the extremely online family living completely off-grid? What about the fossil-fuel lobbyist insisting we all stop using straws? Satirist Eli Grober exposes hypocrisy and dysfunction in “This Won’t Help”, a collection of witty observations from a world that’s falling apart.
Grober, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s, finds absurdity and toxic rhetoric everywhere he turns. He satirizes Issues of politics, technology, climate change denial, and more with biting, Swiftian prose that skewers a world raging with inaction.
This Won’t Help offers a refreshing perspective on the problems plaguing us all, and a cathartic release when it seems there is nothing else we can do. In Grober’s own words, “this probably won’t help,” but it may help us recognize the ways we can seek truth, eschew absurdity, and call for change, while making us laugh out loud.
Eli Grober is an American satirist. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has authored some of their most-read humor pieces. He writes the weekly satirical newsletter Here’s Something, and he is a former staff writer for The Tonight Show. As Dennard Dayle, author of Everything Abridged, puts it, “Eli’s satire would be wasted on a sane society. He’s the perfect fiddler for the burning city on a hill.” This is Eli’s first book, and if we all work together as a team, we can probably get it banned. He lives here in Portland, Maine.