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. 25-minute interview in English with Dutch subtitles, discussing his writing methods. 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. NPR archive of selected Sedaris appearances Interview with David Sedaris by Wim Brands, filmed summer 2013 at Sedaris's West Sussex home. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Extra Credit for Me Talk Pretty One Day The Talent Family. 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. Me Talk Pretty One Day collects tales from both home and abroad, and picks up from where Naked - in which he first introduced his larger-than-life Technicolor family - left off. 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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