Great Indoors Book

Certain classic elements make a humor column irresistible. Workplace humiliation, weird food, rotten vacations, sex machines, raging self-delusion, enraged babies, at-risk squirrels, and of course pitiful date fantasies with Madonna and Katarina Witt - pure catnip to the modern reader. At least, that is, if you judge by the regular readers of Eric Broder's The Great Indoors newspaper column. Since 1987, Broder has captivated and even astonished readers of Cleveland's alternative weeklies (the Free Times and the Edition) with just such intimate and rarely believable details from his own remarkable life. This book collects Broder's best columns from 1987-1996.