A Carnival of Snackery
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If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, David Sedaris's observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party—lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.
These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harmless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it.
The entries here reflect an ever-changing background—new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
“Sedaris is a singularly talented humorist.” —The Washington Post
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
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“Classic David Sedaris—reading the 2020 section was definitely not my favorite though”
“I always try to get David Sedaris’ books as audiobooks because it is so enjoyable listening to him tell his own stories. Like almost all of his previous books that I have read, this was equally sad and humorous. Sedaris has a real skill in interweaving humour with some tragic situations, and observing the absurd in the everyday.
Not my most favorite of his books, but still very good. The only downside is that I wanted more!”About David Sedaris
David Sedaris is the author of thirteen books, including Happy-Go-Lucky, A Carnival of Snackery, and The Best of Me. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
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