![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This month, fans can rejoice in the release of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, which includes essays that originally appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker and on NPR’s "This American Life." As in his previous collections, Naked, Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice and Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sedaris’ tales crackle with the quirkiness that has become his cachet. These days, there’s no shortage of praise for the National Public Radio humorist who has spun his Greek-American family’s hang-ups into pure comic gold. "Sure we were fed," he says, "but we weren’t followed around from room to room and congratulated for existing." "The baby eats, and you watch the baby eat, then you watch the baby knock the telephone off the table." While Sedaris says he and his five siblings were by no means neglected, their early years were hardly the 24-hour-a-day tactile experience that seems de rigueur today. "When you go to their house, everything is about the baby," says the best-selling author with the inimitable nasal voice. On a recent visit to friends who have a 14-month-old child, David Sedaris marveled at the attention garnered by one tiny little being. ![]()
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