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Spokane, Washington April 15-23, 2005 |
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| David Sedaris In his latest book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris covers everything from attending his brother's wedding to selling drinks at a state fair. Bestselling author Sedaris will talk about this book and his life when he returns to the 7th Annual Inland Northwest Literary Arts "Get Lit!" Festival on April 21, 2005. Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of his job as a Macy's elf clad in green tights, reading his "SantaLand Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Sedaris' sardonic humor and incisive social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators. But Sedaris isn't "just a working Joe who happens to put out these perfectly constructed pieces of prose," as This American Life's Ira Glass puts it. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire. The author of bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, Sedaris has also published collections of personal essays Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day, which immediately became a national bestseller. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim was published in June 2004. New York Magazine says "playwright, author, radio star and retired elf David Sedaris may be the most brilliantly witty New Yorker since Dorothy Parker." The Washington Post calls Sedaris "one of America's most prickly, and most delicious, young comic talents." Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name "The Talent Family" and have written several plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays including Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler's Knob and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatist's Play Service. Sedaris' essays appear regularly in Esquire and The New Yorker. In 2001, Sedaris became the third recipient of the Thurbur Prize for American Humor. He was named by Time magazine as "Humorist of the Year" in 2001. Sedaris' original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ in Chicago. Sedaris appeared before a sold out crowd at the Metropolitan Performing Arts Center in Spokane at the Get Lit! Festival, in April 2003. Raised in North Carolina, Sedaris now lives in Paris, France. Salman Rushdie | Rita Dove | David Sedaris | Bob Edwards | Robert Bly |  | ||||||||
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