He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris. Much of Sedaris's humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London, New York, and the South Downs in England.
His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay " Santaland Diaries”. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( BA)ĭavid Raymond Sedaris ( / s ɪ ˈ d ɛər ɪ s/ born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better.Sedaris's best stuff will still-after all this time-move, surprise, and entertain." - BooklistĪdult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool "Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, fies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." - Kirkus Reviews
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" ( Seattle Times). In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina.
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
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