While I think listing him as your favorite author is not to your credit and while I think he is somewhere on the spectrum between being the Bennet Cerf or the James Thurber of our generation—talented but never surpassing mere cleverness and doomed to be forgotten by all but people who buy Trivial Pursuit for the factoids—David Sedaris is still a funny man. Even funnier if you imagine his voice when you read his words.
Sorry, Elizabeth. : (
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He was just here in St. Louis. And once again, I laughed my ass off(I wish that sentence were literally true). And is that sorry to me? I love David Sedaris as a humorist and not necessarily as an “author.” My favorite authors tend towards the more girly, Pearl S. Buck and Jane Austen and Charolette Bronte (for Villette not Jane Eyre). And I think I’ve gone on long enough!
Posted by
Elizabeth on 04/20 at 12:26 PM
Well, yes, it was for you. Pearl S. Buck! Now that name doesn’t show up on too many favorites lists these days.
Posted by
Grant Barrett on 04/20 at 12:33 PM
I really enjoy her non-Good Earth books. I’m reading Imperial Woman right now. I found it for a dollar at a book fair last year. It is worth every penny.
Posted by
Elizabeth on 04/20 at 12:48 PM
