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David Rakoff
Humorist, Essayist, Author, and Contributor to Public Radio’s This American Life

The wry and the heartfelt join in David Rakoff's prose to resurrect that most-neglected of literary virtues: wit. “Looking like a pug and sounding like the love child of Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde and ‘All About Eve's’ Addison DeWitt,”  (Atlanta Journal and Constitution), Rakoff's New York Times bestsellers, Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable, have established him as one of today's funniest, most insightful writers. “Rakoff knows the incantatory power of a story well-told, the art of keeping words aloft like the bubbles in a champagne flute. He possesses the crackling wit of a '30s screwball comedy ingenue, a vocabulary that is a treasure chest of mots justes, impressive but most times not too showy for everyday wear” (Los Angeles Times).

A two-time recipient of the Lambda Book Award for Humor, David Rakoff is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life and The New York Times Magazine, a correspondent for Outside, and Writer-at-Large for GQ. His writing has also appeared in Vogue, Salon, Seed, Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Observer, and Wired, among others.
 
David Rakoff has worked in theater with David and Amy Sedaris on their plays StitchesThe Little Freida Mysteries, The Book of Liz, and the Obie award-winning One Woman Shoe. He  has portrayed Lance Loud and poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and can be seen in the films “Capote,” (fleetingly) and “Strangers With Candy” (fleetingly; mutely).

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Like a whore with a heart of gold, David Rakoff says all the nasty things we want to hear and then reveals that, actually, it's all about love.

— Ira Glass

Rakoff's strength is in the turn of phrase that deftly and wittily dissects its subjects at a stroke.

Chicago Tribune

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