I have said this before but David Sedaris is my favorite author. His stories are brilliant, hilarious, and inappropriate, pretty much everything I am looking for in both a book and now that I think about it, a man. Of course Sedaris is gay so the man search continues but the book search need not. He has several collections of short stories including Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day all of which I highly reccomend and his newest collection When You Are Engulfed in Flames is now available as well.
He writes about his life, his southern family and is almost uncomfortably honest about his experiences, whether that be his drug addiction, his family, traveling and living overseas, getting boils on his ass - whatever the subject he makes it funny and relatable. All of those thoughts or phobias that you have that you dare not say outloud for fear of being looked at strangely he not only says out loud but puts in writing.
The clip below is of a reading called "Bend Over and say Ah" which is about his experience with the health care system in Paris while not being fluent in French. He might take some getting into but once you do, he is hard to dislike.
How do you like about that now?
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