When You Are Engulfed in Sedaris - Julie

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.