David Sedaris
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Sep 22, 2026
Sam MarshallHOST
Anyway, right.
Sam MarshallHOST
What have I been loving lately? I have been loving the David Sedaris new book called The Land and Its People.
Sam MarshallHOST
It is brilliant.
Sam MarshallHOST
Those of you who know David Sedaris, you are in for a treat.
Sam MarshallHOST
It's absolutely brilliant.
Sam MarshallHOST
So David Sedaris is an American writer and he writes short essays about his life.
Sam MarshallHOST
I've known me.
Sam MarshallHOST
I mean, I've sort of discovered him when I was about 20 years ago.
Ingrid AndressGUEST
It's actually between two.
Ingrid AndressGUEST
The new David Sedaris book.
Ingrid AndressGUEST
OK.
Ingrid AndressGUEST
And then this other one called Oh, Sinner, which is about.
Cynthia AbramsCORRESPONDENT
And later, when the theater was converted into a bookshop, writers added their names to the list.
Richard WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there's David Sedaris.
Richard WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Norman Mailer's up there at the top, too.
Cynthia AbramsCORRESPONDENT
These plaques date back to the opening of the theater and stuck around until the bookshop closed.
Katie CobbHOST
A lot of people feel that way about Julia Whelan, where it's just like, you know, whatever you're saying, I wanna listen to it, you know? If Barack Obama read anything other than his own books, I would listen to that.
Katie CobbHOST
David Sedaris.
Meredith Monday SchwartzHOST
Sure.
Katie CobbHOST
I just, I get it.
Sam TallentGUEST
I mean, just plowed through.
Sam TallentGUEST
Also, I read a bunch of David Sedaris before.
Sam TallentGUEST
So it kind of sounds like David Sedaris reading a book about a gay hitman annihilating the world.
Sam TallentGUEST
Okay.
Ryan SicklerHOST
Yeah.
Ben OpipariHOST
So, yeah, who are you reading right now? Poems, books? Let's talk authors.
Margaret GlaspyGUEST
Yeah, I just, gosh, what am I reading right now? I'm reading David Sedaris, The Land and All Its People.
Margaret GlaspyGUEST
I just got that book and I'm like halfway through it and it's wonderful.
Margaret GlaspyGUEST
Like just happy and sad at the same time, laughing out loud and just like, completely devastating at the same time.
TedHOST
What do you got, Ryan? Wow.
AdamHOST
The whole time you were telling me that, unfortunately, I was thinking about the David Sedaris essay, Big Boy.
AdamHOST
I don't know if you, it would be inappropriate for me to describe any of it.
TedHOST
Good.
Ryan SliceHOST
It was facing the backpacks.
Ryan SliceHOST
I don't actually know if it was a monster, but it did make me think, like, you don't see many old monsters.
TedHOST
I keep having the thought that I really hope this is not what David Sedaris' essay, Big Boy, is about, but it keeps feeling like you're going to head sort of in that kind of weird direction.
Ryan SliceHOST
I don't know what's going on with all the...
Allan TraylorHOST
mean, it is pretty much classically his shit.
Justin RemerHOST
And, you know, over the years, you know, David Sedaris, blah, blah, blah.
Justin RemerHOST
So, you know, a lot of the pinnacles of who we think of as modern humorists have won this Thurber Prize.
Justin RemerHOST
Well, then we've got to get
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Having announced it...
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Not Sedaris? No.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Sudeikis? No.
Clinton BaptisteHOST
Keep talking, I'll come to it.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
I brought a book from a North Carolina transplant this week.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
It is David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
I'm excited to talk about it.
Ian DeYoungHOST
That's nice.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
Part one, O-N-E, and part deux.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
Part one, it's actually called part deux.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
Part one, the author David Sedaris grows up weird in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Joseph Harvey HolshueHOST
He's yanked out of fifth grade for speech therapy to fix a lisp.
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