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Author:
David Sedaris
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
October 5, 2021
In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the humorist David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
What The Reviewers Say
I’ve read everything David Sedaris has published — some things many times over.
Diaries can be private spaces, but these recollections were clearly written with public dissemination in mind.
Incuriosity is not one of David Sedaris’s flaws, and in this second tranche of his diaries, his appetite for observing the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of his fellow humans is deliciously rampant.
This isn’t to suggest that the book is bland or conceited – too much goes wrong for that – but we do get a version of his life that we haven’t quite seen before. This is an existence of first-class carriages and cabins.
