Above is the signature and drawing of a well-fed lion that David Sedaris penned prior to the reading. He said, "Can I ask you a personal question...Do you enjoy being a cancer?" I said," No, I'm a leo." Perhaps he thought I was wearing a birthday dress? I wasn't naked. We talked about how I am teaching for the first time this year, art school (we both went), and I was careful not to mention Amy as he told others ahead of me that, "She was dead." She's not, he just likes his own attention and the Amy questions were getting exorbitant after all. Never mind that I totally want to be friends with her and have seen Strangers With Candy over and over. I held my tongue.
Being as he is a good man, Sedaris opted for his paperback release of "When You Are Engulfed In Flames" to do an independent bookseller tour only. I am grateful as he has been sold out at every event that has sprouted up in LA or NY. I had the honor of letting him crack me up so that I ache in the abs today at Collected Works a local bookstore in Santa Fe. Mark and I arrived hours early and had prime seating but by his reading time others were standing outside the door hoping to squeeze in or hear an anecdote or two. He read excerpts from his diary, and a piece he wrote about book tours which was commissioned for The New Yorker.
You may read it here BUT you must log in to read his story otherwise it's their pitch of it:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_sedaris
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he's incredible. he told me i should go to AA meetings to meet people :) i got a picture of an elephant. yay!
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