David Sedaris

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | David Sedaris

“You’re like someone in 1910 complaining that the horse and buggy is disappearing,” you might say, but the cars that replaced the horse and buggy employed hundreds of thousands of people the world over. People who made tyres and windshields and, I don’t know, trunks. People who came up with ad campaigns, and new designs. People who washed cars and raced them and sold them. The new technology companies employ, by comparison, only a handful of people.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.