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The Book Case

David Sedaris Journals Gold

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

David Sedaris is our guest this week and next. Our conversation with him was so delightful and insightful that we could find no way to edit our conversation to just one podcast without leaving out too much of the “good stuff’. David is unique. He writes marvelous essays of observation about modern life drawing much of his material from audiences who come to listen to him read and with whom he spends considerable time interacting. He writes about serious family issues he’s encountered with great humor. He writes about playing a Christmas elf at Macy’s, and how can that fail to draw a chuckle? “Happy-Go-Lucky” is his latest collection of essays. But there are many. We loved everything of his we read. You will too. Books mentioned in this podcast: Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris Calypso by David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day 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 The Best of Me by David Sedaris Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Barrel Fever by David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome back to the bookcase. We took a week off last week, and we hope you didn't mind. But it was very relaxing and we had a good Christmas. And we wish you a happy new year. I'm Charlie Gibson. And I am Kate Gibson. I am also fully refreshed and I don't know, bushytailed. Is that what they used to say? And bushytail and bright-eyed and bushy-tale. Excited for 2023. I'm super excited about these first two shows. We are talking to the

1:00.5

brilliant, the amazing, the prolific, David Sedaris. David Sedaris is unique. And one of the

1:06.7

things I found in reading as we have this past nine months preparing for the podcast

1:11.4

is that I have not thought a whole lot about essayists in my reading habits and I fell in love

1:16.7

with Mary Laura Phil Pot that we did early on and you introduced me to David Sedaris and

1:21.5

I fell in love with his writings.

1:23.9

Really good essayists as those two are And I'm probably leaving somebody else out.

1:27.8

Jenny Lawson is also a tour. January Lawson, who we did, who is a wonderful essayist.

1:32.3

I love the way they write because they take things that are sort of universal, and then they

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find different ways to write about them. And they give you a fresh outlook. it is not insignificant when you have a book of

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essays they're short enough that you can get in bed and read one and then you've got a new one the

1:50.8

next day and it's all good and it's all good and you won't forget what you read as you do when

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you get in bed and fall asleep and then you have to go back 20 pages no with them you can just read

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it and go to bed

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with a smile on your face or a chuckle in your throat if you're reading David Sedaris.

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I think if you are somebody that enjoys sort of writing for yourself in a diary or in a journal,

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