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alexander_cameron
Feb 12, 2016
David Sedaris’s rare wit and unique perspectives have made him a star of print, stage, and radiophonic humour genres. His forty some essays in the “whichy thickets” of the New Yorker magazine, four plays, and four prior essay collections, have won him a list of honours. There is no point in trying to describe these works, whose themes range from the gratifying to the grotesque: only their dry, self-deprecating tone remains constant. There is even controversy as to whether they should be classed as non-fiction. But though they are often exaggerated for effect, they are intelligent and amusing observations of and from his very interesting life.