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A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked
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"Just a great audio book to follow on my drive to work. I can relate to David, reminiscing about his family."
— Rnguy10 (5 out of 5 stars)
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“It’s no wonder Sedaris is in such demand as a beacon of comic sanity in a terminally chic world.”
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“Original, acid, and wild.”
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“Funny…touching, even tender.”
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“David Sedaris’ deadpan delivery is the perfect foil to the bizarre in his latest collection of essays, and it’s hard to imagine another reader recounting these unlikely anecdotes…He is at his best when he’s describing the absurdity of childhood, moments so unexpectedly strange and yet recognizable, like Sedaris’ boyhood dream of performing a one-man show as Billie Holiday singing commercial jingles that they prompt gleeful, giddy laughter.”
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“Sedaris is Garrison Keillor’s evil twin: like the Minnesota humorist, Sedaris focuses on the icy patches that mar life’s sidewalk, though the ice in his work is much more slippery and the falls much more spectacularly funny than in Keillor’s.”
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“Naughty good fun from an impossibly sardonic rogue, quickly rising to Twainian stature.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A New York Times bestseller
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A USA Today bestseller
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Oprah Pick for Best Memoirs of a Generation
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A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years
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A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in Cultural, Ethnic, & Regional Humor
Me Talk Pretty One Day Listener Reviews
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Aaron Friscia, 5/13/2021
About David Sedaris
David Sedaris is the author of a dozen books, including four that made the #1 New York Times bestsellers list. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.