![]() "It's funny how certain objects convey a message," Sedaris writes, itemizing what his washer, stove and bathroom scale represent to him. ![]() The neurotic, death-fearing author visits a morgue, has a catheter inserted just to see what it's like and buys a skeleton as a gift. While writing this book (the bulk of which was previously published in story form in The New Yorker, among other places) Sedaris turned 50, and it shows. It's much easier to laugh at a nudist colony than at death itself - which is essentially what Sedaris is doing in his latest collection, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. But some squeamishness is harder to overcome. Thanks to his ability to blush and take it, we know what it's like to be an elf in Macy's Santaland, carry a lisp through childhood and grow up gay in Raleigh, N.C. ![]() There are books, and then there are "Books We Like." Each week in Books We Like, our critics review their top picks for new fiction and nonfiction.ĭavid Sedaris has made a career out of humiliation. Time magazine named David Sedaris "Humorist of the Year" for his collection of essays Me Talk Pretty One Day. ![]()
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