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sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has
become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The
great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms
and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of
satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the
human condition today.
David Sedaris is the author
Barrel
Fever and Holidays
on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays,
Naked,
Me
Talk Pretty One Day, Dress
Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When
You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which became a bestseller.
There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print
and they have been translated into 25 languages. He was the
editor of Children
Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding
Stories. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly
in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The
Best American Essays.” He and his sister, Amy Sedaris,
have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family”
and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced
at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New
York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches,
One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident
at Cobbler’s Knob, and The
Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists
Play Service. David Sedaris’s original radio pieces can
often be heard on This
American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio
International and produced by WBEZ. David Sedaris has been nominated
for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy
Album.
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“Sedaris ain’t
the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident”
— Whitney
Pastorek, Entertainment Weekly
“Sedaris has
hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation,
or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world
might actually want and find useful. . . He’s smart, he’s
caustic, he’s mordant, and, somehow, he’s . . .
well, nice”
— Bill Richardson,
Toronto Globe and Mail
“Sedaris’s
droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentics who inhabit
the world’s crevises make him one of the greatest humorists
writing today”
— Chicago Tribune
“Sedaris belongs
on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are
revising our ideas about what’s funny. ”
— San Francisco
Chronicle
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