David Sedaris
Autor(a) de Me Talk Pretty One Day
About the Author
David Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York on December 26, 1956, but he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of North Carolina. He graduated from the mostrar mais Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. He is a popular radio commentator, essayist, and short story writer. He held many part-time and odd jobs before getting a job reading excerpts from his diaries on National Public Radio in 1992. His first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, was published in 1994. His other works include Naked, Holidays on Ice, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), and Calypso. Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2001. He has also written several plays with his sister Amy Sedaris including Stump the Host, Stitches, and The Little Frieda Mysteries. In 2014 her title, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Séries
Obras por David Sedaris
Rooster at the Hitchin' Post 2 exemplares
David Sedaris Book Set: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim/Me Talk Pretty One Day (2005) 2 exemplares
Schafft die Ya Ya raus!. Das Beste aus dem Hause Sedaris. Ungekürzte Hörfassungen (2003) 2 exemplares
Innocents Abroad 2 exemplares
Do I Sound Gay? 2 exemplares
Themes and Variations - An Essay 1 exemplar
Ãlbum de famÃlia 1 exemplar
©lbum de fam©Ưlia 1 exemplar
David Sedaris 4 Book Set: Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy, When you are Engulfed in Flames (2003) 1 exemplar
The Best of Me 1 exemplar
The Best of Me (Author / Director Unknown) 1 exemplar
Letting Go 1 exemplar
David Sedaris Novel Collection 4 Book Set 1 exemplar
Sedaris David 1 exemplar
Farm 1 exemplar
satirical book - annual newsletters. 1 exemplar
To Make a Friend, Be a Friend 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuidor — 238 exemplares
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuidor — 179 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Sedaris, David Raymond
- Data de nascimento
- 1956-12-26
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Johnson City, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Rackham, West Sussex, England, UK - Educação
- Kent State University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BA|1987) - Ocupações
- writer
- Relações
- Sedaris, Amy (sister)
Hamrick, Hugh (partner) - Organizações
- New Yorker
NPR - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Honorary Doctorate (Binghamton University, 2008)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019)
Terry Southern Prize for Humor (2018)
Thurber Prize for American Humor (2001)
Jonathan Swift Internationaler Literaturpreis für Satire und Humor (2019)
Time Humorist of the Year Award (2001) (mostrar todos 7)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal for Spoken Language (2018) - Agente
- Steven Barclay Agency
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actor Amy Sedaris.
Much of Sedaris's humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, and his life in France, London, and the English South Downs
Membros
Críticas
Holidays on Ice por David Sedaris
I love David Sedaris, he has such dry, wry wit. But this has to be my least favorite book of his. It's not as funny, and he comes off as a real jerk in most of the stories. I listened to the audiobook which is the best way to get the full Sedaris experience! He and his sister, Amy, do all the narration which is fantastic. This collection isn't the most uplifting holiday read, in fact save for the first story, it's barely a holiday read at all. But I will read anything by Sedaris, so even though it's not my favorite, it's still worth a listen!… (mais)
When it comes to David Sedaris, audiobooks are always better than print ones. Especially since he is the one narrating. It feels good to get a Sedaris book from time to time and listen to his take on life. I can even hear his comments as I go about my own day, for example when the cashier at the grocery store asks about my plans for the weekend. Sedaris is insightful and entertaining.
But Mr. Sedaris: I really did not need to hear what you did with your lipoma. That was a little too much information.… (mais)
But Mr. Sedaris: I really did not need to hear what you did with your lipoma. That was a little too much information.… (mais)
Pretty in Paris
Oh to be the partner of Hugh Hamrick and to explore Paris. I’m jealous.
David Sedaris is the funniest humorist I’ve come across in years. I can listen to him narrate his short stories again and again and they never lose their humor. Sheer genius.
Me Talk Pretty Some Day needs to be listened to. Sedaris narrares the short stories in this collection which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2001. I’m not sure how it would come across in print, but Sedaris is clearly a performer.
While the stories range from learning French in situ, to family matters to living in New York, those revolving around his attempt at fluency in French are the best. Sedaris is completely incapable of learning French. He just doesn’t get the language. He’s flummoxed by the nouns having genders for example. He tries all sorts of gimmicks to try to remember the sex of various objects.
‘Hoping to learn by repetition, I tried using nouns’ gender in my everyday English. ‘Hi guys,” I’d say, opening a new box of paperclip, or “Hey you, have you seen my belt? I can’t find her anywhere.”.’
He joins a French beginners class, with immigrants from countries in Bosnia and Middle Eastern war zones. The teacher is sarcastic and belittles her hapless charges.
‘My only comfort was that I was not alone. Hurdled in the doorways and making the most of our pathetic French my fellow students and I engaged in conversation currently overheard in refugee camps.
“Sometime me cry alone at night.”
“That be common for me also.”
“But be more strong you. Much work and some day you talk pretty. People start love you too, maybe tomorrow, OK.”’
The French stories are interspersed with 19th century French carousel music. The book is a gem.
I highly recommend this book for anyone suffering illness or depression, for first-time visitors to Paris, for those of us who notice those Americans who think there are two syllables in “pen”.
And for lovers everywhere.… (mais)
Oh to be the partner of Hugh Hamrick and to explore Paris. I’m jealous.
David Sedaris is the funniest humorist I’ve come across in years. I can listen to him narrate his short stories again and again and they never lose their humor. Sheer genius.
Me Talk Pretty Some Day needs to be listened to. Sedaris narrares the short stories in this collection which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2001. I’m not sure how it would come across in print, but Sedaris is clearly a performer.
While the stories range from learning French in situ, to family matters to living in New York, those revolving around his attempt at fluency in French are the best. Sedaris is completely incapable of learning French. He just doesn’t get the language. He’s flummoxed by the nouns having genders for example. He tries all sorts of gimmicks to try to remember the sex of various objects.
‘Hoping to learn by repetition, I tried using nouns’ gender in my everyday English. ‘Hi guys,” I’d say, opening a new box of paperclip, or “Hey you, have you seen my belt? I can’t find her anywhere.”.’
He joins a French beginners class, with immigrants from countries in Bosnia and Middle Eastern war zones. The teacher is sarcastic and belittles her hapless charges.
‘My only comfort was that I was not alone. Hurdled in the doorways and making the most of our pathetic French my fellow students and I engaged in conversation currently overheard in refugee camps.
“Sometime me cry alone at night.”
“That be common for me also.”
“But be more strong you. Much work and some day you talk pretty. People start love you too, maybe tomorrow, OK.”’
The French stories are interspersed with 19th century French carousel music. The book is a gem.
I highly recommend this book for anyone suffering illness or depression, for first-time visitors to Paris, for those of us who notice those Americans who think there are two syllables in “pen”.
And for lovers everywhere.… (mais)
Even a bitter Sedaris is still funny
Review of the Little, Brown & Company audiobook edition (May 31, 2022) narrated by the author, released simultaneously with the Little, Brown & Company hardcover original.
Happy-Go-Lucky consists of 18 recent David Sedaris monologues/mini-memoir-essays, some of them recorded in live performances. Themes and Variations (2020) appeared earlier as an Amazon Original Story which I reviewed as Funny as Ever.
Several of the essays relate to the COVID lockdown era and overall there seemed to be a more bitter and curmudgeonly tone to many of them. Topics included COVID, American gun culture, mortality and death esp. the passing of Sedaris' own father etc. So there were some rather grim areas where the humour is darker than usual.
In any case, I've been a long-term Sedaris fan and am ready to keep following him down the darker roads as well.
Soundtrack
You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen.… (mais)
Review of the Little, Brown & Company audiobook edition (May 31, 2022) narrated by the author, released simultaneously with the Little, Brown & Company hardcover original.
The terrible shame about the pandemic in the United States is that more than 800,000 people have died to date, and I didn’t get to choose a one of them.
Happy-Go-Lucky consists of 18 recent David Sedaris monologues/mini-memoir-essays, some of them recorded in live performances. Themes and Variations (2020) appeared earlier as an Amazon Original Story which I reviewed as Funny as Ever.
Several of the essays relate to the COVID lockdown era and overall there seemed to be a more bitter and curmudgeonly tone to many of them. Topics included COVID, American gun culture, mortality and death esp. the passing of Sedaris' own father etc. So there were some rather grim areas where the humour is darker than usual.
Where I live now, in the UK, it’s hard to get a rifle and next to impossible to secure a handgun. Yet somehow, against all odds, British people feel free. Is it that they don’t know what they’re missing? Or is the freedom they feel the freedom of not being shot to death in a classroom or shopping mall or movie theater?
In any case, I've been a long-term Sedaris fan and am ready to keep following him down the darker roads as well.
Soundtrack
You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 62
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 83,181
- Popularidade
- #141
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 1,793
- ISBN
- 458
- Línguas
- 21
- Marcado como favorito
- 583
