David Sedaris

Who are some authors’ that are like David Sedaris?

I lOVE David Sedaris. I am looking for some dry wit to read up on and I’ve already read all of his books. Does anybody have an author that I should check out?

read running by scissors by Augusten Burroughs. it is also a memoir that features a dysfuctional (but hysterical) childhood. its very popular, so you might have read it.

Crimebusters & Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life $9.21 If storytelling and oral history often seem like endangered species in a culture dominated by disposable infotainment, NPR host Ira Glass could be seen as something of a preservationist, his low-key passion for the magic moments that inform everyday life the driving force behind his successful This American Life radio series. This second series anthology culls its 10 stories onto two discs loosely…

This American Life: Lies Sissies & Fiascoes $18.98 With the rise of more and more forms of media, the American storytelling tradition has become increasingly fractured. Praise be then for This American Life, a weekly radio anthology of stories that never fail to move even the most casual listener. Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes purports to be a best-of compendium, but at two discs there’s plenty more where this comes from. –Randy Silver…

A Very Special David Sedaris Christmas $9.99 The award-winning radio show “This American Life.” First person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Media and distributed by Public Radio International.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply….

Chicken Little [Blu-ray] $11.90 A classic fable gets fused with War of the Worlds in Disney’s Chicken Little. In the small town of Oakey Oaks, young Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff, Garden State) struggles to live down the embarrassment of having once thought the sky was falling. But when he gets struck again by a hexagonal, sky-camouflaged, hi-tech doohickey, he and his friends Ugly Duckling (Joan Cusack, School of Rock), …

Six Days Seven Nights [VHS] $3.00 The African Queen meets Swept Away in this sometimes labored romantic comedy by director Ivan Reitman. Fortunately, he cast an old pro in Harrison Ford, as Quinn Harris, a South Seas charter pilot who must ferry New York fashion editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) from one island to another–a hop that falls flat when they fly into a mammoth storm that causes them to crash on a deserted island. The …

Elf (Full Screen Edition) [VHS] $4.65 Elf is genuinely good. Not just Saturday Night Live-movie good, when the movie has some funny bits but is basically an insult to humanity; Elf is a smartly written, skillfully directed, and deftly acted story of a human being adopted by Christmas elves who returns to the human world to find his father. And because the writing, directing, and acting are all genuinely good, Elf is also genuinely fun…

Chicken Little $7.39 Features include: •MPAA Rating: G•Format: DVD•Runtime: 81 minutes…

Six Days, Seven Nights $3.98 The African Queen meets Swept Away in this sometimes labored romantic comedy by director Ivan Reitman. Fortunately, he cast an old pro in Harrison Ford, as Quinn Harris, a South Seas charter pilot who must ferry New York fashion editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) from one island to another–a hop that falls flat when they fly into a mammoth storm that causes them to crash on a deserted island. The …

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Me Talk Pretty One Day $9.99 “It’s a pretty grim world when I can’t even feel superior to a toddler.” Welcome to the curious mind of David Sedaris, where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and French toddlers unmask the inadequacies of the American male. Sedaris inhabits this world as a misanthrope chronicling all things petty and small. In Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris is as determined as ever to be nobody’s …