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David Sedaris

July 2024

  • Brian Logan

    David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

    Brian Logan
    The American humorist delighted the Royal Festival Hall with characteristically disgruntled slices of life – including a brush with cancel culture

June 2023

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    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Kamila Shamsie and more

    Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from the tales of a rock star’s past to heartfelt novels

June 2022

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    Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris – lockdown, loss and dentistry

    The writer’s affable misanthropy and self-deprecation are on display in a new set of reflections on life and death

May 2022

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    David Sedaris on the death of his father: ‘I don’t think the coffin could have been any uglier’

    Lou Sedaris had always baffled his children. So when he died at 98, where would they begin with his funeral?

October 2021

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    Book of the day
    A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris review – gross, moving, hilarious

  • Globetrotter: Sedaris at a book launch in Hamburg in 2004.

    A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris review – a magpie with an eye for the absurd

September 2021

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    Legends of the fall: the 50 biggest books of autumn 2021

    From new novels by Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead to Michel Barnier’s take on Brexit, Bernardine Evaristo’s manifesto and diaries from David Sedaris – all the releases to look out for

December 2020

  • Schools scandal … Chana Joffe-Walt making spinoff Nice White Parents.

    'The first week was mayhem' – how This American Life revolutionised radio

    It has spawned hit spinoffs, bagged a Pulitzer and its evocative, character-led reports now have 5 million fans. Has This American Life grown too big? As the show turns 25, founder Ira Glass reveals what keeps him up at night

July 2020

  • MasterClass tutors, clockwise from top left, Werner Herzog, Margaret Atwood, Steve Martin and Misty Copeland.

    Lockdown culture
    'Soon you'll hit gold!': the day I took lessons with Herzog, Atwood, Lynch and more

    Comedy tips from Steve Martin, film-making lessons from David Lynch, ballet insights from Misty Copeland … our writer signs up for MasterClass, the star-studded online tutorial service that’s booming in lockdown

May 2020

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    Books that made me
    David Sedaris: 'Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is pretty much the best thing ever'

    The comic essayist on crying over Olive Kitteridge, his love for Richard Yates and the books that make him laugh

February 2020

  • Philip Roth

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what can I read after work instead of watching TV?

    From Jane Austen to medical memoirs, books that will help leave thoughts of the office behind

September 2018

  • Illustration for essay by David Sedaris

    Walking the city
    David Sedaris: ‘It’s fascinating, the things you see when you’re out on foot’

    Exclusive essay for Guardian Cities: David Sedaris has walked through cities all over the world and the worst, by far, is Bangkok

July 2018

  • Woolly Mammoths

    Book of the day
    The Re-Origin of Species by Torill Kornfeldt review – bringing extinct animals back to life

    The ‘de-extinction’ of vanished wild animals, from the woolly mammoth to the Pyrenean ibex, raises deep questions about our relationship to nature
  • True confessions? … David Sedaris

    Book of the week
    Calypso by David Sedaris review – a family affair

    Sedaris’s stories are as funny as ever, but his diary-essays also confront tragedy, politics and depression
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    Books interview
    David Sedaris: ‘The audience thinks I’m monstrous’

    The US writer and humorist talks about his sister’s suicide, how he gets shocked by his own writing, and why he hates Moby-Dick

June 2018

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    David Sedaris: ‘If I come across a man my size, I squeak’

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    ‘Droll, savvy and soulful’: five funny writers who'll make you laugh

August 2017

  • Rosie Waterland

    Beauty and the books
    Rosie Waterland: My eyelash extensions are the best thing in my life

    In our series Beauty and the books, we chat to those who love both books and beauty products. Here the author and comedian describes her love of David Sedaris and how she always falls for claims about cheap lip gloss

June 2017

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    Book of the day
    Theft By Finding by David Sedaris review – diaries to make you gasp

  • David Sedaris - press publicity portrait

    Theft By Finding: Diaries Volume One by David Sedaris – review

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