![]() ![]() "My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's," Sedaris says. And his mercurial mother once locked her children out of the house on a snowy winter day because she wanted to be alone.Īlso in the spotlight is his sister Amy, an actress and brilliant mimic who has collaborated with her brother on numerous stage plays. Though Sedaris, 47, may be inclined to embellish, his characters are real: His sister Tiffany really does Dumpster-dive for frozen turkeys, then cooks and eats them. The topics include a humiliating strip poker game, a pet parrot with a pitch-perfect imitation of a milk steamer and an eyebrowless 9-year-old named after an alcoholic drink. The collection features essays that originally appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker and on NPR's This American Life. The title of the book, his fifth, has absolutely no significance, says the North Carolina-reared Sedaris. ![]() Sedaris, humorist and author of the best-selling Me Talk Pretty One Day, once again exhibits his knack for spinning unsettling experiences into pure comic gold. ![]() Few writers can elicit shrieks of delight from the detailed description of a drowning mouse, but David Sedaris does it in "Nuit of the Living Dead," one of the essays in his new collection, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. ![]()
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