Attn: Fans of David Sedaris

[AlFrankenFan]

On Tuesday his latest book came out!



Hopefully I'll be getting it this weekend and I can't wait to read it! The review from Amazon.com:

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other bestselling books has lost his edge. The 27 essays here (many previously published in Esquire, G.Q. or the New Yorker, or broadcast on NPR's This American Life) include his best and funniest writing yet. Here is Sedaris's family in all its odd glory. Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of "an uncanny ability to please people," demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock. Here is his oldest sister, Lisa, imploring him to keep her beloved Amazon parrot out of a proposed movie based on his writing. (" 'Will I have to be fat in the movie?' she asked.") Here is his mother, his muse, locking the kids out of the house after one snow day too many, playing the wry, brilliant commentator on his life until her untimely death from cancer. His mother emerges as one of the most poignant and original female characters in contemporary literature. She balances bitter and sweet, tart and rich—and so does Sedaris, because this is what life is like. "You should look at yourself," his mother says in one piece, as young Sedaris crams Halloween candy into his mouth rather than share it. He does what she says and then some, and what emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy.
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From Booklist
Sedaris' piquant essays are as meticulously honed and precisely timed as the best stand-up comic routines, which is, of course, what they are. A National Public Radio star, the author of five best-sellers, including Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), and a hall-filling performer, Sedaris--openly gay, nervy as a tightrope walker, sharply hilarious, teasingly misanthropic yet genuinely compassionate--has a unique ability to supply exactly the right details to bring every funny, awkward, ludicrous,... read more

Book Description
With Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain, hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists betwen people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.

[Doug Decker]

1. I read "Me Talk Pretty..." on a plane ...

and I was laughing out loud so hard I couldn't get my breath. It's hilarious.

[donco6]

2. Few books make me actually bust out laughing . . .

. . . but Me Talk Pretty One Day did that. I just couldn't help myself.

You cannot see his point coming until it smacks you in the face and in one utter infitisimal second it all comes clear and you laugh with the joy of all the utter absurdity of life.

[Colin Ex]

3. David Sedaris rocks my ass off repeatedly.

Required reading, particularly the family Christmas newsletter (possibly the funniest thing I've ever read, or maybe I just have a demented sense of humor) and the piece written from the point of view of a girl trying to incite a riot at her funeral (okay, I do have a demented sense of humor).

-C

[HuckleB]

4. Yeah, Powells on Hawthorne was sold out already on Tuesday night.

And after Sedaris snubbed 'em to do a reading over at 23rd Avenue Books on Tuesday night. Hey, I love Powells, but 23rd Ave is a true independent bookstore. Good for them!

[kodi]

5. nothing beats the santaland diaries & krumpet the elf

esp. when he starts singing christmas songs in the vocal style of billi holiday

[Lauren2882]

6. You know he's gonna be in Minneapolis Thursday?

I think it's Thur. 7pm at the Coffmann Union bookstore. But probably check CityPages to make sure.

I actually don't know if you're a Minnesotan, but it seemed like you were from you username and avatar.

[AlFrankenFan]

8. Actually I'm in California

I lived in Colorado when I first learned of Paul Wellstone, I was almost 10. But I love Minnesota - perfect weather there I tell ya after being in California for three years the same ol' warm gets boring and I want freezing temps again!

[GOPisEvil]

7. He's doing a book signing on my birthday!

:bounce: I hope I can get some time off work to go down there. Line forms at 4:00.

[pagerbear]

9. Me love David Sedaris!