Each of his four subsequent essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004), and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) have become New York Times Best Sellers.

He mines the same territory again and again -- stories of growing up with his dysfunctional, quirky, yet lovable family. I chuckled out loud a couple of times while reading this book, and enjoyed learning more about Sedaris's quirky, dysfunctonal, yet endearing family. That being said, it’s not going to come as a big surprise that this collection is more of the same types of stories we’ve heard in the past, but I have to say that Sedaris really shines when he talks about his sister, Tiffany, and his brother, Paul (a. David Sedaris is the author of eleven previous books, including, most recently, The Best of Me , Calypso, and Theft by Finding.I wonder if you have to be weird to like Sedaris’ books, or maybe even weirder to use them to get to sleep at night like I do? These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Prepare yourself for utter hilarity, and once again I highly recommend audio because there really is nothing like listening to Sedaris read his books. I laugh my ass off at the bottom-feeder personalities and occasional bargain basement morals herein, but some people will wring their hands and cry, "Oh how awful!

I had just started to mutilate a miniature box of Red Hots when my mother pried them from my hands, accidentally finishing the job for me. It seems that most of the family members are funny on their own but add them all together and it’s a great recipe for some good chuckles!

They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). I also really like the spattering of sound effects and the music every time he moves on to a new topic.

I phoned one night just as he was leaning a family pack of frozen chicken wings against the back door. This was my second Sedaris collection, my first being Calypso which I read and made a big to-do over back in March of this year. In many ways 2020 probably hasn't turned out quite as David Sedaris imagined it in the early 2000s, his father still being alive--going on 96 and living an assisted living home last I heard--being the most positive aspect. Nowhere is this more apparent than DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM, where he unleashes his inner-snark.Having read all about rich and fabulous Sedaris in Calypso, it was nice to read not always so rich but still as quirky and hilarious Sedaris in this one.

Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there. After reading Calypso, it was recommended to me by several friends here on Goodreads that I must absolutely listen to David Sedaris read his own stories.

He’d forgotten to defrost them and was now attempting to stomp the solid mass into three six-inch portions, which he’d force into his toaster oven. David Sedaris revels in making normal people seem quite grotesque, he makes fun of everyone but mainly of himself and can make you cry with achingly sad stories just when you least expect it.