An Evening With David Sedaris

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With 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.

Sedaris returns to Minneapolis with his latest self-deprecating look at life, growing older, and beach vacations: Calypso. After purchasing a Carolina coast cottage, he realizes that despite the idyllic nature of Sea Section (as he names it), it’s impossible to take a vacation from yourself. This book has been touted as “beach reading for people who detest beaches, [and] required reading for those who loathe small talk…”

Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002). The audio version of Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls is a 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album.  He is the author of the NYT-bestselling collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer).  He was also the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris’ pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.”  There are over ten million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages.

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