![]() Examples: When Sedaris built a 7-screen multiplex theatre in his home, the neighbors (the Cottingtons) built a 12-screen theater. It’s one-upmanship writ large when Sedaris buys or does anything bigger and better. In another chapter, Sedaris talks about his neighbors, the ones who insist on outspending him in everything. Sedaris describes an office temp who feels it is her duty to fatten him up by making him a “hateful concoction of overcooked pasta stuffed with the synthetic downy fluff used to fill plush toys and cheap cushions.” It was trying, but failing, to pass as lasagna. But at the play put on by 6-year-olds at Sacred Heart Elementary, one of the second-grade Wise Men, reciting his line in the play, mangles it and says, “A child is bored.” ![]() We’ve all heard the words from the Bible about Jesus and Joseph and Mary in a stable in Bethlehem. Time Out, New York chose him the funniest man alive. The essays in “The Best of Me,” some spring-loaded with a dash of fiction, are taken from Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Town & Country and ”Best American Essays” books. ![]() I do not usually laugh out loud when I read hilarious books, but it’s hard not to when you enjoy a David Sedaris book of essays. ![]() If you have a tendency to choke when you laugh really hard, better not read this book. ![]()
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