David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
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"As far as I was concerned, the French could be cold or even openly hostile. They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth."

David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris's career leads him to New York (the sky's-the-limit field of furniture moving) and eventually, of all places, France.

Sedaris's move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.

Review:
"[A] brilliant comic performance — a deftly shaken cocktail of wit, weirdness, and melancholy....Sedaris deserves a rave for giving us another book, period. But he's getting one here for giving us the best book of his career. (Grade: A)" Augusten Burroughs, Entertainment Weekly

Review:
"Like his earlier performances, the essays are sardonic, funny and wry, but at the same time there is a new strain of introspection that makes for a book with more emotional resonance, a more complex aftertaste." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Review:
"Sedaris's sense of life's absurdity is on full, fine display, as is his emotional body armor. Fortunately, he has plenty of both." Kirkus Reviews

Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
by David Sedaris
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David Sedaris made his NPR debut with one of the stories in this collection, "The Santaland Diaries," which quickly established him as one of the most wickedly witty, outrageous commentators on American life going: a sort of nineties Dorothy Parker. His timing is impeccable, and he has that very rare ability to pinpoint and expose the most deeply rooted - and inane - inconsistencies in the culture. Sedaris is the only writer I know who would use a suicide note to poke fun at our silly pretensions. One of my favorite stories, "Parade," is told in the voice of Mike Tyson's male lover: "We tried to keep [our relationship] a secret, but for Mike and me there can be no privacy. Number one, we're good copy; and number two, we just look so damned good together, so perfect, that everyone wants pictures."

Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
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This wonderfully subversive holiday gift package reprints Sedaris' deliciously acerbic short story "The Santaland Diaries" and combines it with two equally sardonic Sedaris Christmas classics plus an all-new holiday tale. For everyone who's had enough of the forced good cheer, family madness, and commercial overkill of Christmas, "Holiday on Ice" is the perfect antidote

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