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Sedaris makes it clear to me that being kind
is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart
thing to do—the goodwill he engenders helps
sell his next book. He also disdains those
authors who use their book tours as opportuni
ties to get laid.
He doesn’t mind picking up a few extra
bucks along the way, however, and has been
putting a tip jar on the table at his book sign
ings. “Everyone else has one,” he says. “Why
not me.7”
Portland fans will be pleased to know that
the $143 they donated (a record high for
Sedaris) will be returning to the local economy.
“I’ve been saving my tips for Mario’s,” he says.
“It’s my favorite men’s clothing store in the
United States.” The unapologetic smoker adds
that he’s usually afraid to wear what he buys,
however, for fear he’ll bum a hole in his nice
new clothes.
Equity Foundation (Kregg Amston A Theodore Fsttig Fund, Peter and Erica Goodwin Fund).
Fantasy Video/Oregon Entertainment and Just Out.
Glass first heard him and eventually put
him on the radio to read his now-legendary
account of working as a Christmas elf at
Macy’s.
The irony of being as famous for his voice
as for his writing is not lost on Sedaris, who
opens Me Talk Pretty One Day with his account
of being tormented by an elementary school
speech therapist trying to eliminate his lisp.
“None of the therapy students were girls,”
he writes. “They were all boys like me who •
kept movie star scrapbooks and made their
own curtains. ‘You don’t want to do that,’ the
men in our families would say. ‘That’s a girl
thing.’ Baking scones and cupcakes for the
school janitors, watching Guiding Light with our
mothers, collecting rose petals for use in a fra
grant potpourri—anything worth doing turned
out to be a girl thing.... When asked what we
wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the
truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with
when we grew up. ‘A policeman or a fireman
or one of those guys who works with high-ten
sion wires.’ ”
When one considers the frankness with
which Sedaris writes about his
sexuality, his phenomenal
mainstream success seems all
the more remarkable, but he
is unfazed by it. “I write that I
live in France with my
boyfriend in France because
it’s true,” he told The Advocate
recently. “We should have
reached the point by now
where that reads the same as
‘I live in France with my
wife.’
Sedaris’ relationship with Oregon goes back
Any doubts about Sedaris’ appeal certainly
to his student days when, in a misguided
were laid to rest after his recent lovefest with
Grapes of Wrat/i-inspired fantasy, he decided to
David Letterman. Not only was it the first time
pick apples in the Hood River Valley, a story
an author has read from his work on the show,
he relates in his previous collection of essays,
it might have been the first time any author
Naked. Like most of his adventures, his career
has done a late-night reading in decades. Let
as a migrant worker proved a complete failure,
terman, clearly a huge fan, even told Sedaris
but it was during that time that he began keep
that although it was good to see him, he’d
ing a journal, a habit he continued when he
rather the author was home writing more stuff.
returned to art school in his native Raleigh,
Critics are running out of superlatives to
N.C.
rave about his work and have compared him
“We’d have these cri
favorably with Oscar
tiques in art school that
Wilde, Dorothy Parker,
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James Thurber, Mark
hours, and it was like peo
Twain and Woody Allen,
ple talking to their thera
to whom he bears a
pists—it was so incredibly
slight resemblance. His
boring," he emphasizes in
reviews are so uniformly
his distinctive nasal tenor.
ecstatic I’d say they
“I didn’t really have any
sound like his parents
thing to say about my
wrote them, but anyone
paintings, so I started writ
familiar with Sedaris’
ing little stories that were
books knows his parents
like a parody of critique
never have had many
talk, and I’d get up and
nice things to say about
read those.”
him. The New York Post,
The other students
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found Sedaris’ material
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give readings as part of
ed States is because he
other artists’ performance
lives in France.
pieces. It was under such a
Much of Me Talk
circumstance in Chicago
Pretty One Day deals
that NPR commentator Ira
with that move.
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