Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except…
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except…
"Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality."
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Ca…
-- Calypso, This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso.
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except…
The best American essays 2015
by Reed, John, Berlin, Isaiah, Birkerts, Sven, Als, Hilton, Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., Gladwell, Malcolm, Daum, Meghan, Solnit, Rebecca, Cronin, Justin, Atleework, Kendra, Angell, Roger, Jacobson, Mark, Kreider, Tim, Sedaris, David, Doerr, Anthony, Strayed, Cheryl, Briere, Tiffany, Jefferson, Margo, Kennicott, Philip, Lebo, Kate, Smith, Zadie, Sundberg, Kelly
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Shares the author's favorite diary entries, providing a look into the mind of a comic genius. "It's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries. If you faithfully record your life in a journal, you're writing every day--and if you write every day, you beco…
Shares the author's favorite diary entries, providing a look into the mind of a comic genius. "It's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries. If you faithfully record your life in a journal, you're writing every day--and if you write every day, you beco…
Now, for the first time, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world in Theft By Finding: Diaries 1977-2002. This is the first-person account of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real …
"For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through …