MARK YOUR CALENDARS! David’s latest essay collection, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, hits shelves wherever books are sold May 31, 2022. @entertainmentweekly exclusively revealed the cover today! More info at link in bio.
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, David’s new book, is finally here!* Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. *oddly phallic cacti not included.
Last-minute shopping inspiration 💀 From A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY, link in bio for more.
On this day, according to David’s diary….. read more inside A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY
No one’s unraveling over here #repost @frownyfacedolls DAVID SEDARIS…sock portrait. @davidsedarisbooks
#repost @annefishbein Here’s another from my authors with pipe project. I’ve got to figure out who to photograph next… . #davidsedaris (no one funnier)
Join David on tour as he shares his new book: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY! Link in bio for more info. #DavidSedaris #HappyGoLucky
A new story by David now online at the New Yorker!
A new story by David now online at the New Yorker!
🤡HAPPY-GO-LUCKY TOUR: First stop on the west coast was a smash! Thank you @thirdplacebooks, and everyone who came out for David and special guest @cndy_housea 🤡 Link in bio for current tour dates and more info.
🤡HAPPY-GO-LUCKY TOUR: First stop on the west coast was a smash! Thank you @thirdplacebooks, and everyone who came out for David and special guest @cndy_housea 🤡 Link in bio for current tour dates and more info.
🤡HAPPY-GO-LUCKY TOUR: First stop on the west coast was a smash! Thank you @thirdplacebooks, and everyone who came out for David and special guest @cndy_housea 🤡 Link in bio for current tour dates and more info.
Thank you, @bookshopsc!
Thank you, @bookshopsc!
Thank you, @bookshopsc!
A new piece by David, now online at the New Yorker: “Yelp Reviews of X-Mas” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
David Sedaris returns to @cap_ucla as part of the Winter/Spring lineup! Catch him at Royce Hall on Sunday, May 8. 👀Who will be in the audience? Tag @CAP_UCLA in the comments to let them know you’re coming. Ticket link in bio/Linktr.ee.
David kicking off December shows with some festive houndstooth onstage 🎟✨ For current tour dates and more info on upcoming shows, see link in bio!
Last week in Bloomington… thank you, IU! For more info on shows and current tour dates, see link in bio.
Thank you, Salt Lake City! For current tour dates and more information on upcoming shows, check out link in bio.
Thank you, Salt Lake City! For current tour dates and more information on upcoming shows, check out link in bio.
🪄A little holiday treat for you🪄Enter for a chance to win (link in bio or head to https://bit.ly/HolidayDuoSweeps)
Happy publication day to Cindy House @cndy_housea and MOTHER NOISE! David says “The scope of her knowledge is as remarkable as her humor, her depth, and her great skill as an essayist. This is her time.” Catch Cindy on the road with David this summer as an opener on the HAPPY-GO-LUCKY tour! More info coming soon. Find MOTHER NOISE wherever books are sold
“If I were having people over, I would generally be embarrassed to cook for them,” admits @davidsedarisbooks, though he’s tried in the past. “I made a meat loaf and it was so bad that when I threw it down my chute at the end of the night, the entire building shook.” Instead, he generally does the eating while his longtime boyfriend Hugh Hamrick handles the cooking. Sedaris just released his latest book, “Happy-Go-Lucky,” for which he’s now on tour, so before setting off, he made sure to enjoy plenty of Hugh’s cooking — while also popping into Magnolia Bakery — as well as indulging in the many different flavors of diet Jell-O of which he’s become quite fond. Head to the link in our bio to read his #GrubStreetDiet Illustration: @ryan_inzana
