David Sedaris

1 month ago | firewireblog.com | David Sedaris |Larry Fire |byLarry Fire

New York Times-bestselling author David Sedaris offers a hilariously twisted look at young siblings in this picture book that reads like Dr. Seuss gone wild! Featuring funny (and demented!) illustrations by New Yorker artist Bob Staake that will delight readers and parents alike. This selfish sister only thinks of herself, and she wants it all—even her brother’s kidney! Everything must belong to her! But who can possibly tell her “no”?

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | David Sedaris

Americans are hurting, so we rage in $1,000 restaurants, glittering parties and foot salons What a difference a year makes. I’ll be at dinner now and, like clockwork, the president will come up. Someone will say, “Can you believe this is happening? He’s snatching people off the streets! He’s calling for judges to be impeached and here we’re all just looking on with our mouths open! Why aren’t we doing anything?”Everyone will nod.

2 months 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.

2 months 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 months 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.