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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 -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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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.
