About every five years or so I rediscover David Sedaris, and it’s like rediscovering ice cream – my God, it’s sweet, creamy, cold, and there may be chunks of cookie dough in it?! This stuff is great!
Here’s what reading David Sedaris does for me: convinces me that dull real life experiences – watching One Life to Live, taking a French class, looking at beach real estate with your family, flying on an airplane – can be achingly funny and medicinally satisfying to read when well-told.
Having just finished a slew of YA novels for a contest I’m helping judge, none of which were funny or really very satisfying, I am on a little writing binge, rooting through my life, pulling out moments and dusting them off, seeing how I can shine them up, maybe add some paint or a decal. I’m having fun. Thanks, David.
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"Dress Me In Corduroy and Denim" is an appropriate title for us Ashlanders. I'm looking forward to more funny reads from the binge...
If Sedaris is your creative prompt, I say go back and read them all again - what you are producing is some of the funniest stuff you've ever done!
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