The humorist and author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames talks about obese spiders, his boyfriend Hugh, and why he isn't about to apologize to Oprah for exaggerating his autobiographical stories

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I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?

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Columnist Jon Carroll does a great job articulatling why the complaints about Sedaris are a bit, well, crazy

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Is Listening To An Audiobook Inferior To Reading A Book?

Does listening to an audiobook count as "reading" a book? Is it an inferior act? Do you retain as much? These are some questions i have been contemplately lately.

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Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The danger of writing stories about your life is that after two or three books you've used up most of the good anecdotes and you start to write less interesting, less amusing tales.

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David Sedaris' humorous account of buying a skeleton for his boyfriend. Sample paragraph: 'Having been dead for three hundred years, there's a lot the skeleton doesn't understand; TV, for instance.

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