A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent
move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty
One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another
inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who
talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. 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.
Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become
one of our best-loved authors. 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. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of
the funniest hes ever written. 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.
Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays
in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless.
The New York Times Book Review on Naked
