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David Sedaris Returns

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Society & Culture, News

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

David Sedaris returns to the podcast to talk about his pre-election anxiety, his lifelong blackout of all social media, and the time he got bullied while testifying before the British House of Commons. He discusses what it was like the comb through 25 years of material for his new collection of essays The Best of Me, the strangeness of putting out a book without the traditional book tour, and the essay that got him in hot water with bear activists. Order David's latest book The Best of Me on Amazon, A Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For more than 25 years, David Sederis has been carving out a unique literary space virtually

1:19.5

creating his own genre. A Sederis story may seem confessional but is also highly attuned

1:25.6

to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is absurd and moving about our daily existence

1:31.6

and it's almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume,

1:37.6

David Sederis brings us his funniest and most memorable work. Taken together, the stories in his new

1:43.7

book The Best of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sederis takes in the surprises life brings

1:49.9

him. And today I'm happy to welcome David back to the show to talk about his pre-election anxieties,

1:55.3

his lifelong blackout of all social media, and the time that he got bullied while testifying before

2:01.0

the British House of Commons. He discusses how he selected the essays that made it into The Best of Me,

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the strangeness of putting out a book without the traditional book tour, and the essay that got him in

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