David Sedaris

2 weeks ago | fivebooks.com | George Saunders |Lorrie Moore |David Sedaris |Katherine Heiny

Here at Five Books, we are often asked to recommend funny short story collections. This is a tall order. It’s unusually difficult to recommend comic writing—sense of humour being so specific to the individual—but here are five brilliantly original stories, from popular collections, all of which take a wry or surreal approach to their troubling subject matter.   ‘Ghoul’ by George Saunders, in his collection Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders is a modern master of the short story.

2 weeks ago | lvpnews.com | David Sedaris |Dave Howell

BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem. 610-867-3761, www.bapl.org Mary Pat Beebe Book Club: “Creation Lake,” By Rachel Kushner, 10 a.m. April 4. Registration required Big Read: Creative Writing Workshop: Writing the Stories We Need: A Workshop Inspired by Rebekah Taussig’s “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Body,” 10 a.m. April 5.

2 months ago | readingmattersblog.com | David Sedaris

Non-fiction – hardcover; Little, Brown; 272 pages; 2022. Putting aside the ultra-creepy cover (I don’t like clowns), David Sedaris’ Happy-Go-Lucky is a right laugh. I chuckled through it and marked dozens of pages featuring great one-liners and funny quips.

Dec 3, 2024 | redandblack.com | Charles DICKENS |Fannie Flagg |David Sedaris |Hazel Gaynor

As finals approach, the holidays are right around the corner. Here is a curated list of young adult and adult Christmas novels spanning centuries and genres to read to get in the spirit. By Charles DickensGenre: Classic, historical fiction, fantasyPublished in 1843, “A Christmas Carol” tells the timeless story of Ebenezer Scrooge learning the true message of Christmas through the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future.

Nov 28, 2024 | internazionale.it | David Sedaris

Se mi chiedeste di scegliere tra “la possibilità di incontrare Chris Rock o il papa”, io risponderei: “Chris Rock tutta la vita”. Non ho niente contro il papa, ma non mi ha mai fatto ridere né ha trovato una possibile soluzione al problema delle armi negli Stati Uniti, come ha fatto Chris Rock quando ha detto che le armi da fuoco si possono anche non regolamentare, ma ogni proiettile deve costare cinquemila dollari. “Ok”, proseguireste voi. “Tra Julia Louis-Dreyfus e il papa?”.