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David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling CalypsoBack when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself cha

A new collection of essays by the humorist and best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day traces his offbeat world travel experiences, which involved surreal encounters with everything from French

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【空降紐約時報暢銷榜No.1 / 當代幽默大師 2026 頂尖回歸巨作！】「看啊！活著是件多麼不容易、卻又多麼值得驚奇的事！」當你被生活的瑣碎壓得喘不過氣，你需要的是一杯烈酒，和一本David Sedaris。美國當代最受歡迎的諷刺散文大師、格萊美獎提名的「美國國寶級作家」，繼《Happy-Go-Lucky》後，帶著他職業生涯中最辛辣、也最溫柔的 28 篇全散文重磅回歸！這一次，David Sedaris把鏡頭對準了「變老」這件事，以及我們與身邊的人之間奇妙的羈絆。書中提到他一邊抱怨伴侶動完髖關節手術後的傲嬌，一邊笨拙地當起全職看護；他把 Duolingo 的學習機器人當成唯一能傾聽家族祕密的知己；他跑到梵蒂岡去訂製神父的法衣、在瓜地馬拉騎著叫「龍舌蘭」的馬，卻在肯亞旅行時一張照片也不拍。甚至，他在翻閱通訊錄時，淡淡地數著那些已經離世、他無法承受失去的老友們……這是一本會讓你「在捷運上忍不住笑出聲，卻在讀到最後一頁時偷偷抹淚」的散文作品。In this new collection, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).“A welcome return to form for the much-awarded and much-loved humorist…Sedaris remains a national treasure.” —Kirkus (starred review)In THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE, his first new collection since HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend. He tries on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh's hip-replacement su

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A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Fr

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you

SummaryDavid Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know

From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays.For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has