David Sedaris is Back in the Book Case

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week it is David Sedaris part two - or David Sedaris redux. We loved our conversation with him and as we said last week, were we to limit the conversation to just one podcast, we’d have to cut out some of the good stuff. This week David talks about his empathy for those who come to hear him speak or who ask him to sign a book, his love for reading appearances, how he tries out new material on audiences, and how those audiences don’t seem to remember any of what he read. Listen to the end for a funny anecdote. Our bookstore this week is Arundel Books in Seattle - the store David said was his favorite ‘indie’ in the U-S. Books Mentioned in the Podcast: Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris Calypso by David Sedaris Barrel Fever by David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris Theft by Finding: Diaries (1997-2002) by David Sedaris Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris Naked by David Sedaris Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris The Best of Me by David Sedaris Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff The Collected Short Stories of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pulp by Charles Bukowski Babel by R.F. Kuang Freshwater for Flowers by Valerie Perrin The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Welcome to the bookcase. I am Kate Gives-In, and I'm going to introduce this show before I introduce my co-host as Hermann's Hermit sang a great song called I'm Henry the 8th I am, and they said second verse, same as the first. So this is our second show with David Sideras. I'm really excited to be having a second show with him.
0:55.0	All right, co-host, take it away. I used to be Kate's father. I'm Charlie Gibson. It was a role
0:59.6	that I actually appreciated, and I was very proud of her. Now I've become her co-host. She sort of has
1:05.0	kicked me out of the family, I guess, or removed me. But I am her father, and this is, if you're just joining us, so for the first time,
1:13.4	our two-generational, two-gender look at books. And as Katie mentioned, this is David Sedaris,
1:19.3	Ray Dukes. Yeah. Our first podcast of the year was with him, and we are sort of breaking form to do
1:24.9	two. But getting David, when we were all in the same place,
1:28.3	which was something that he wanted, took a number of months. And we just began to have this
1:32.9	wonderful conversation with him that lasted, I think, probably about two hours, Kate. And we
1:37.5	didn't want to leave out, as I said in the description of the podcast, we didn't want to leave
1:41.2	out any of the good stuff. Yeah, talking to him is as rich as
1:45.5	reading him. He is so fun to talk to. He's amazing. I mean, first of all, if you haven't read him,
1:51.6	I highly, highly, highly recommend his books. We talked about how amazing they were last week. I'm
1:55.6	to reemphasize it this week. If you have not read David Sedaris, go out and get me Talk Pretty One Day or holidays
2:02.1	on ice or barrel fever or any of his amazing books because you will find yourself laughing,
2:08.2	you will find yourself touched, and you will find yourself nodding along with his amazing
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