Sedaris is relatable and very funny. He’s the antithesis (according to me, and in a good way) to Peter Sagel who he shared the NYT section with today. I don’t want him to pass, but think what he believes his legacy will be hysterical for generations.
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Autocorrect ruined my post
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I love you, David Sedaris. I never laugh (I mean guffaws!) so hard as when I read one of your books, and I've read them all. Calypso made me laugh and cry. I await your next one. I'm looking forward to the book you'll write one day about what it's like to get old and decrepit Now that would be a masterpiece!
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As good as his books are, his live shows are better. The voice, the attitude, the timing. *****
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When Intook comp lit in college I wish he had been on the reading list instead of Proust!
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The man is a national treasure but his treasures at....Yale. Ugh. As his ( hilarious) comment indicates this just seems wrong. Oh well. Best news here is another collection of his diaries seems on the way. Merry Christmas!
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If only these personal papers had been donated, rather than sold, to an institution, whether it be Yale, the NYPL, the Rosenbach or some other research organization.
Where is literary altruism?
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@MarieH
Yale has a $29 billion endowment. They'll be fine.
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"Where is literary altruism?"
What does that phrase even mean?
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Forever entwined with Twain, wow! Congratulations Mr. Sedaris
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You can always tell when someone is reading a David Sedaris book on an airplane by the sudden loud and spontaneous outbursts of laughter. If Mr. Sedaris couldn’t get into Yale, I’m glad his archives did!
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@J. Lipp - At a book signing I held up the line talking to Mr. Sedaris about how listening to one of his Christmas stories on CD while driving on a snowy highway I literally almost slid into a ditch I was laughing so hard.
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