Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Armed with a stack of papers, satirist David Sedaris regularly approaches the lectern to fanfare normally reserved for rock stars. Few writers can command such expansive audiences — but, then, “Sedaris’ writing blurs into live comedy,” notes the Guardian. If you’ve read his best-selling memoirs — Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, among others — you’re already familiar with how the master humorist turns everyday eccentricities into laugh-out-loud observations. For the uninitiated, get a taste of the onetime Macy’s Christmas elf’s acerbic wit — “the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation, or oxygen,” writes Toronto’s Globe and Mail — on Sunday.