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What We're Reading Now"Sedaris's essays aren't just funny--they are examples of the craft of memoir writing at its best. Readers will smile in recognition at his anecdotes about his crazy family, college experiences, and dead-end jobs. "LizRodriguez - Books-A-Million, Niles, IL The hilarious stories in Naked are memoirs of David Sedaris' wonderfully odd life. Join the author as he hitchhikes across the country with a bizarre cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats. Listen as he first discovers Shakespeare and tries to reintroduce rich cadences of Elizabethan language into rural North Carolina. Scrutinize the fine distinctions between fancy and extra-fancy as he toils in the Northwest as a migrant fruit picker. Celebrate Christmas at the Sedaris residence with friends, family, and a recently paroled prostitute.



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David Sedaris

is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist and radio contributor. Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries. " He published his first collection of essays and short stories, , in 1994. Each of his four subsequent essay collections, (2004) , and (2008) have become New York Times Best Sellers. As of 2008, his books have collectively sold seven million copies. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality, and his life in France with his partner, Hugh Hamrick.



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