Obey In Advance by Ginny Hogan and Carlos Greaves

Join us for a night of laughs as Ginny Hogan & Carlos Greaves come to Lost City Books to celebrate their political satire, OBEY IN ADVANCE.
About this Event

About the book:

"We know, we know: A book about authoritarianism? In 2026? What, are the writers living in some liberal snowflake nightmare land? Or Germany in 1933?
Listen, we get it. There may not be much need right now for tips on how to live in an autocracy, but who knows? Maybe somewhere down the line, like this weekend, or tomorrow, or five minutes from now, you’ll come upon a bombastic military parade, or a masked federal agent cosplaying as Sergeant Slaughter asking for your papers, or an octogenarian former beauty-pageant mogul cornering you in the new White House ballroom, droning on and on about the evils of windmills, and you will be glad to have read this book."
From how to stick your head in the sand to avoid thinking about your dictator, to the most effective ways to reeducate the masses, Ginny Hogan and Carlos Greaves’s hilarious (and oddly reassuring?) Obey in Advance has you covered—whether you want to Make Authoritarianism Great Again or not.

About the authors:

Ginny Hogan is a stand-up comic and writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, and more. Her debut stand-up special Regression is available on Amazon Prime. And yes, she was once featured on a Fox News list of insensitive “liberal” posts about the Titan submersible implosion.

Carlos Greaves is a former electrical engineer turned comedy writer—a career move that haunts his parents to this day. He is the topical satire columnist for the humor site McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and writes the humor newsletter Shades of Greaves. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, NPR, The Borowitz Report, and The Onion. His first book, Spoilers: Essays That Might Ruin Your Favorite Hollywood Movies, was highlighted in Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2023.

The conversation will be moderated by Lucy Huber.

Lucy Huber is a writer living in Washington, DC with her husband, son, daughter, and cat. You can find more of her work here.

Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.

Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.