Six stories about PowerPoint, made in PowerPoint, and presented in PowerPoint, by ultra-short story writer David Gaffney. Destroy PowerPoint is at at Birmingham Book Festival on 7th October and Manchester Literature Festival on 17th October  David Gaffney uses Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software to tell short stories that explore the way PowerPoint dominates communication at work, affecting the way we think and feel about ourselves in this complex, fragmented world. The stories show how PowerPoint seeks to place order on the chaos around us, revealing the comic and tragic stories hidden behind the blizzard of headings, bullet points, graphs, flow charts, system models, organisational structures and jolly clip art that surround us  When Bob, the office PowerPoint maestro leaves what will his ex-mistress’s farewell presentation be like? Claire is in love with Harry, but should she really tell him through the medium of PowerPoint? Why does Mathew give a PowerPoint presentation about tongue action to the management board of nuclear futures? Beatrice’s job is to click when Adrian nods, so is to a good idea to reveal her innermost thoughts to the whole conference room? What would happen if a lone home worker had to deliver a PowerPoint presentation to himself? And imagine a PowerPoint presentation whose sole aim is to stop the audience thinking?
All these questions are answered in David Gaffney’s Destroy PowerPoint: a nasty, mean-spirited, hurtful look at how PowerPoint dominates communication in the workplace. Funny, profound and moving, these stories speak to everyone, telling tales of a complicated corporate world where the human spirit thrives despite everything Destroy PowerPoint is at at Birmingham Book Festival on 7th October and Manchester Literature Festival on 17th October |
