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a long way home - david sedaris
found a couple of new yorker issues discarded by a cafe so i grabbed the nov. issue to read (as a pomodoro excuse). and who do i find?
david sedaris. a writer, or personally to me, the translator to my thoughts. even though he's reaching 70 years old, the short stories and essays he recounts comes with this prose that i can't really find anywhere else. clearly written with grammer involved, david comes off as a very refined writer but as also as casual as someone retelling stories to a friend at a reunion party.
his humour is dry and sarcastic but not extreme as in snl. absurd yet normal -- is the gist of what david sedaris is all about. he got me into short stories but the more i try this medium from other writers, i've came to the realization that i just really like the mundane being communicated beautifully. not as in embellished beauty but as crystal clear beauty. the small details in our normal lifes, the ups and downs, or the revelations with age -- are often lost deep in our memory (human beings are not really meant to have amazing memory). but when david writes them down, they come back to me crystal clear. like i've never forgotten them.
this is a gibberish amount of praise but please, to myself and whoever is reading this, david sedaris is a writer to check out.