This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he’s also getting better….Sedaris’s best stuff will still–after all this time–move, surprise, and entertain.” - BooklistĪdult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstoolįor the past fifteen years or so, I've made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket. “Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris…defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life.” - Kirkus Reviews Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:
Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris’s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from “a writer worth treasuring” ( Seattle Times). In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. “David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,” ( The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
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