The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - David Sedaris March 5-6, 2001

David Sedaris reading - A digital recording of the March 5, 2001 event where Sedaris read from recent and very new work and answered questions. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event. David Sedaris interview/conversation - A recording of the March 6, 2001 audiocast of the interview and conversation with David Sedaris, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. See the Writers House calendar entry for more about this event.

David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, and most recently of Me Talk Pretty One Day, and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life." Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his reading his "SantaLand Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Sedaris' sardonic humor and social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular commentators. At the end of each of these commentaries, Sedaris was identified as an apartment cleaner in New York City. But Sedaris isn't "just a working Joe who happens to put out these perfectly constructed pieces of prose," as Ira Glass has put it. The great skill with which Sedaris sliches through euphemisms shows that he is becoming a master of satire. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and written several several plays which have been produced at La Mama and at Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, and Incident at Cobbler's Knob. Sedaris has taught writing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his essays appear regularly in the New Yorker. He lives in Paris. Writers House Fellows Program | Writers House Webcast Archive