"And the only thing that saved me was that every word of it was true."īeing expelled from French class for accurately portraying his teacher is all in a day's work for David Sedaris. "The school read that story, and I got kicked out," Sedaris said in a recent interview. A fellow sufferer replies, "That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. "Sometime me cry alone at night," Sedaris laments about his sadistic French teacher. Sedaris's version is the first time this trick has worked since Mark Twain pulled it off with one hand tied behind his back. The book's title, after one of the essays, records Sedaris's first official stroke of genius choosing to present his own garbled English translations of the garbled French uttered by students in an introductory French class.
With these books, Sedaris fans could keep him nearby rather than waiting for a broadcast on All Things Considered.įans will rejoice again, because Sedaris is back with a new laugh-out-loud collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day. Gradually, collections of his essays appeared: Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice. Sedaris talked about his hilarious adventures doing such seemingly innocent tasks as cleaning New York apartments or working as a Christmas elf at Macy's. He was the only person in the early 1990s more amusing than George Bush. Many of us still remember when we first heard the dry, droll voice of David Sedaris on public radio.
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