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	David Sedaris: Just a writer by Seth Rogovoy
		Sedaris will be the keynote speaker at the third annual Berkshire Gay and Lesbian Festival, which takes place tomorrow at the Seven Hills Inn and Resort in Lenox.
		While Sedaris doesn't mind being identified with any of the groups that claim him for their own, his preference is to be considered a writer, period.
		Sedaris acknowledges that the nastiest bits of his work are the parts that make him laugh out loud while he's writing.
	www.berkshireweb.com /rogovoy/interviews/sedaris.html (1157 words)

	BookPage Interview June 2000: David Sedaris
		Sedaris talked about his hilarious adventures doing such seemingly innocent tasks as cleaning New York apartments or working as a Christmas elf at Macy's.
		Sedaris doesn't describe himself as an essayist, a humorist, or even a writer.
		In retrospect, Sedaris also cringes at the memory of his early years as a performance artist in, of all places, North Carolina.
	www.bookpage.com /0006bp/david_sedaris.html (1007 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Sedaris reading - A digital recording of the March 5, 2001 event where Sedaris read from recent and very new work and answered questions.
		David Sedaris interview/conversation - A recording of the March 6, 2001 audiocast of the interview and conversation with David Sedaris, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House.
		Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and written several several plays which have been produced at La Mama and at Lincoln Center in New York City.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/sedaris.html (266 words)

	David Sedaris News
		Sedaris at Meyerhoff Grammy-nominated humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris will be at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Wednesday for a reading and book-signing.
		David Sedaris, whose darkly humorous, self-deprecating autobiographical stories delight readers and NPR listeners, will entertain at the Palace Theater in Waterbury Saturday at 8 p.m.
		Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is an apparent autobiography of his life from the time when he was a child with a lisp up to his life as an adult.
	www.topix.net /who/david-sedaris (639 words)

	David Sedaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorous essayist and radio contributor.
		Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina.
		Sedaris is also a playwright, having authored along with his sister, actor Amy Sedaris, several plays under the name "The Talent Family." These include: Stump the Host (1993), Stitches (1994), The Little Frieda Mysteries (1997), and The Book of Liz (2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Sedaris (886 words)

	David Sedaris ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		David Sedaris may well be the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star—his speaking engagements are now consistently standing-room-only, a far cry from his early days as a housecleaner in New York City.
		The great skill with which Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
		David Sedaris is the author of the bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, each of which became immediate bestsellers.
	www.barclayagency.com /sedaris.html (415 words)

	BookPage Interview June 2004: David Sedaris
		Though Sedaris, 47, may be inclined to embellish, the characters featured in his stories are very real: his sister Tiffany dumpster-dives for frozen turkeys, then cooks and eats them; and his mercurial late mother once locked her children out of the house on a snowy winter day because she wanted to be alone.
		Sedaris profits from his family members' peculiarities, but he is also sensitive to their feelings.
		A little more than a decade ago, David Sedaris was an unknown Chicago-based performance artist and house cleaner whose career took a life-altering turn when "This American Life" host Ira Glass attended one of his performances at an area club.
	www.bookpage.com /0406bp/david_sedaris.html (815 words)

	Books by David Sedaris
		David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters.
		It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics" to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic.
		Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with.
	www.literati.net /Sedaris/SedarisBooks.htm (487 words)

	David Sedaris
		David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's.
		Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day.
		David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, worming its way through "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" a chipper suburban Christmas letter that spirals dizzily out of control, and "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol," a vicious theatrical review of children's Christmas pageants.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/sedaris_david.htm (1069 words)

	Amazon.com: Naked: Books: David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We travel with Sedaris and his quadriplegic hitchhiking companion, listen to his foul-mouthed seat mate on a long bus trip, and accompany the author on a hilariously self-conscious visit to a nudist colony.
		Sedaris also matures here in that he slowly moves outside of himself and gives center stage to other people and their concerns.
		David Sedaris' adventure (and misadventures) in college, hitch hiking, plus candid moments in his family history and as an apple picker/processor is both entertaining and piognant.
	www.amazon.com /Naked-David-Sedaris/dp/0316777730 (1501 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Naked: Books: David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Sedaris is a playwright, radio commentator, contributor to Esquire and apartment cleaner.
		David Sedaris is on his way to becoming an American national treasure.
		David Sedaris writes mostly about his family (including himself), but instead of relying on the tired old wouldyoubelieveit style to get their personalities across, he makes obsessiveness, predictability and contemptuous familiarity seem normal and inevitable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Naked-David-Sedaris/dp/0753812487 (930 words)

	Sedaris on New York
		Commentator David Sedaris lived in New York City for a number of years.
		Sedaris first appeared on Morning Edition in 1992, recounting his strange-but-true experiences working for Macy's Department Store as a Christmas elf clad in green tights.
		Sedaris went on to tell many stories on Morning Edition and eventually authored the best-selling Barrel Fever and Naked for Little, Brown.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/sedaris.html (309 words)

	Sedaris,David Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French.
		In this "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy, the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family, and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
		An anthology of Sedaris' favorite stories, this volume includes the work of some of the most influential and talented short story writers such as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as the author's explanation of why readers should love them as much as he does.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Sedaris,David (636 words)

	Borders - Feature - "I Like Being a Foreigner": A Conversation with David Sedaris
		David Sedaris, on the other hand, is obsessively careful and much too thoughtful for unambiguous confidence.
		Paul Sedaris, a North Carolina native, is quite at home in his family's adopted environment (all the other Sedaris siblings were born in upstate New York, and moved to Raleigh when they were kids).
		David Sedaris's stories reveal that, despite spending his formative years in the South, he remained utterly unassimilated.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=sedaris (1039 words)

	Amazon.ca: Naked: Books: David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sedaris (Barrel Fever, LJ 5/1/94) has fashioned a funny memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life.
		David Sedaris' "Naked" is aptly titled, because he is a writer with no qualms about laying himself and his life bare on the page.
		Sedaris is a master at developing characters psychological foibles (In NAKED we are led to believe they are his foibles) in such a way that even the characters don't realize that they are slightly demented.
	www.amazon.ca /Naked-David-Sedaris/dp/0316777730 (1443 words)

	David Sedaris interview: 11-02-98
		David Sedaris is talking about what happened in his French class that day.
		Sedaris, who spoke by phone from his Paris home, is a best-selling author and has become one of public radio's most popular commentators.
		With Sedaris, known for his keen-witted humor, real life is the basis for most of his work.
	www.ucsc.edu /oncampus/currents/98-99/11-02/sedaris.htm (953 words)

	David Sedaris
		It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget.
		David Sedaris made his NPR debut with one of the stories in this collection, "The Santaland Diaries," which quickly established him as one of the most wickedly witty, outrageous commentators on American life going: a sort of nineties Dorothy Parker.
		Sedaris is the only writer I know who would use a suicide note to poke fun at our silly pretensions.
	www.gaybookblog.net /Sedaris.html (491 words)

	Amazon.com: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Books: David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Sedaris most often known for the stories he portrays on NPR's "This American Life" is a prolific writer and story teller.
		David thought it was because he slept all day, smoked pot all night and listened to one record over and over.
		David's job is to clean the house although sister wants no part of that- it is David's obsessive cleaning behavior that makes him do it.
	www.amazon.com /Dress-Your-Family-Corduroy-Denim/dp/0316143464 (2474 words)

	David Sedaris - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hear a live recording of David Sedaris reading a previously unpublished story from his new audiobook "Me Talk Pretty One Day."
		David Sedaris describes a humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics," from his bestselling essay collection.
		In another sidesplitting collection, the author writes about his foulmouthed brother, his hopeless French and his brief career as a speed-freak performance artist.
	dir.salon.com /topics/david_sedaris (233 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sedaris also is the best-selling author of Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (1994), a collection of stories and essays based on his experiences working odd day jobs, and his personal misadventures as an elf in a department store in The Santa Land Diaries.
		Whether he's taking to the road with a thief, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world.
		It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plate of Tics" to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/sedaris.html (425 words)

	Amazon.ca: The David Sedaris Box Set : 14 compact discs: Books: David Sedaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Sedaris' voice and delivery IS part of his writing.
		David Sedaris is a talented and funny author but is a horrid reader.
		Sedaris reads like he is ready for a nap.
	www.amazon.ca /David-Sedaris-Box-Set-compact/dp/1586214349 (1160 words)

	Interview \| David Sedaris
		Those who have read any of David Sedaris' work at all know that he's openly and happily gay.
		Entirely autobiographical, the picture that emerges is of Sedaris' life almost to this point.
		Now 43, Sedaris was born in New York state and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, the South lends a soft touch to a voice that is nasal and neither deep nor unpleasant.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/sedaris.html (2868 words)

	Powell's Books - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
		While in France, Sedaris prides himself on his refusal to learn any useful French — even though he has spent six summers plus two years in the country.
		David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story.
		"Sedaris is Garrison Keillor's evil twin...."Reliable sources" have told Sedaris that he has "tended to exhaust people," and true to form, he will exhaust readers of this new book, too — with helpless laughter."
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0316776963-0 (564 words)

	Powell's Books - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
		In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
		Here is his father dragging his mortified son over to the home of one of the most popular boys in school, a boy possessed of 'an uncanny ability to please people,' demanding that the boy's parents pay for the root canal that Sedaris underwent after the boy hit him in the mouth with a rock.
		Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=28734&cgi=product&isbn=0316143464 (932 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - David Sedaris - Books: Meet the Writers
		Starting with his deadpan, disarmingly funny pieces on NPR and continuing with his collections of short fiction and essays, David Sedaris is one of the best, sharpest humorists writing today.
		Sedaris is in rare form in his third full-length collection.
		Sedaris talked with us about some of his all-time favorite books, including this nonfiction account of English football hooligans.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?userid=Ql6tX4fBnN&cid=881776 (385 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| Me Talk Pretty One Day
		Satirical master David Sedaris is well known for his public radio commentaries featured on the program "This American Life." He is the author of "Naked" and the bestselling "Barrel Fever" and his essays appear regularly in The New Yorker.
		"Sedaris' sardonic wit will already be familiar to listeners to National Public Radio's 'Morning Edition,'" said the American Library Association's Booklist magazine, "but the venom he exposes in these pages proves he is more than a cuddly curmudgeon.
		Satirist David Sedaris Sedaris describes a humilitating bout with obsessive behavior in the piece "A Plague of Tics," from his best-selling collection of autobiographical essays, "Naked."
	www.salon.com /audio/2000/10/05/sedaris_mepretty (420 words)

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