If asked 'Why do I need to go anywhere with you?' they'll straighten their shirtĬuffs or idly brush stray hairs from the sleeves of their sport coats and say, 'Oh, I think we both know why.' They're always remarkably calm, these agents. The agent then says, 'I'm going to ask you to come with Opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. BBC Radio 4: 'The Great Leap Forward,' 'Today's Special,' 'City of Angels,' 'TheĪ NYONE WHO WATCHES EVEN THE SLIGHTEST amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office.'Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist' 'This American Life': 'Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities,'.Pretty One Day,' 'Jesus Shaves,' 'I'll Eat What He's Wearing,' 'Smart Guy' Esquire: 'You Can't Kill the Rooster,' 'The Youth in Asia,' 'A Shiner Like a Diamond,' 'Big Boy,' 'Me Talk.The Back Bay Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette BookĪcknowledgment is made to the following, in which various forms of this book's pieces first appeared: New Yorker: 'Genetic Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced,ĭistributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior writtenīack Bay Books / Little, Brown and Companyīack Bay Books is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. The New York Times Book Review on Naked Read ExcerptĪll rights reserved. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up frequently I was helpless. 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. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. 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. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father.

His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation.

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