The Pickle Factory Release - LIVE in DC

Celebrate the release of Sam R. Oyken's The Pickle Factory with spooks, feds, writers, editors, and more LIVE at Pubkey DC. Fast, sharp, and bone-dry funny, Sam R. Oyken’s vast comic debut is Catch-22 with a security clearance, A Confederacy of Dunces with a nation on the line. Bureaucrats obsess over mandatory trainings, cafeteria upgrades, and birthday cakes, while competence quietly bleeds out in a corner. Underneath the laughs and the irony runs a hard moral line: contempt for cowardice, anger at waste, and respect for those who actually risk their lives for the country. None of which plays well—or at all—at the Pickle Factory. Join us for a talk with the author and drinks with people who are certainly in no way related to or employed by domestic or foreign intelligence agencies.