Author David Sedaris joins TODAY to discuss his new collection of essays “Happy-Go-Lucky.” He touches on how his writing has evolved overtime and shares how he handled a heckler while delivering the commencement address at Oberlin College.
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David Sedaris Announces New 2022 Tour Dates
Author David Sedaris has announced new 2022 tour dates and will be reading from his latest essay collection, Happy-Go-Lucky which will hit bookstore shelves on May 31, 2022. In California Sedaris will appear in Napa, Davis, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Los Angeles. You can see his tour dates and order ticketsContinue reading “David Sedaris Announces New 2022 Tour Dates”
Happy-Go-Lucky By David Sedaris Arrives In Bookstores May 31, 2022
David Sedaris is taking it back to the beginning. After focusing on a diary collection and a best-of anthology, the beloved memoirist is releasing another new book of personal essays. Happy-Go-Lucky will be released on May 31, 2022. “This wasn’t my first choice of a title,” Sedaris shred with Entertainment Weekly. “The initial one was TheContinue reading “Happy-Go-Lucky By David Sedaris Arrives In Bookstores May 31, 2022”
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) By David Sedaris To Be Released On October 5, 2021
Picking up where his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, left off, David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003–2020 in his upcoming book, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). The collection will feature entries from the author’s infamous diaries — he journals every day, no matter what. This period of time saw Sedaris bouncing between hisContinue reading “A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) By David Sedaris To Be Released On October 5, 2021”
David Sedaris Discusses New Book The Best of Me
Asking an interview subject about their pandemic isolation journey is dangerously close to passé. But for a David Sedaris interview, it’s a requirement: The essayist’s entire brand is built on nonstop international touring, his best material flowing from his travels and his frequent — and often off-color — interactions with his fans. (On his lastContinue reading “David Sedaris Discusses New Book The Best of Me”
The Best of Me By David Sedaris
A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris’s best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from “the funniest man alive” (Time Out New York). What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of DavidContinue reading “The Best of Me By David Sedaris”
David Sedaris Inducted Into The American Academy of Arts and Letters
David Sedaris, is one of the new class of inductees into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His membership safely confirmed, Sedaris joins an elite group which over the past century and a half has included Langston Hughes, Georgia O’Keeffe and John Updike. This year, the academy voted in 11 new members, among themContinue reading “David Sedaris Inducted Into The American Academy of Arts and Letters”
David Sedaris Announces New Book, Calypso
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting with Calypso. You’d be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games andContinue reading “David Sedaris Announces New Book, Calypso”
David Sedaris Announces Book Tour To Promote Theft by Finding
David Sedaris has announced a book tour for his latest work Theft by Finding. With Theft by Finding, readers are getting a chance to look behind the curtain of David Sedaris’ eccentric mind. The book is made up of excerpts from the diaries that have inspired his stranger than fiction essays over the years. The 23-stop tourContinue reading “David Sedaris Announces Book Tour To Promote Theft by Finding”
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2016) By David Sedaris To Be Published On June 6, 2017
For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have theyContinue reading “Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2016) By David Sedaris To Be Published On June 6, 2017”