David Sedaris @ The Civic

An Evening With DAVID SEDARIS

Sunday, May 2nd at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 

David Sedaris, NPR humorist and bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is coming to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium for one night only: Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased via SantaCruzTickets.com, by phone (831)420-5260, or in person at the Civic Box Office, 307 Church Street (Tuesday-Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday 10-1:30pm). 

Bookshop Santa Cruz will be selling books at this event. We are delighted to once again be a part of welcoming David Sedaris to town!

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.  

David Sedaris is the author Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which became a bestseller.  There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages.  He was the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories.  Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in the Best American Essays collections.  He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service.  David Sedaris’s original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ.  David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. 

            “Sedaris ain’t the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident” -Entertainment Weekly 

“Sedaris has hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation, or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world might actually want and find useful. . .  He’s smart, he’s caustic, he’s mordant, and, somehow, he’s . . . well, nice.”
—Bill Richardson, Toronto Globe and Mail 

“Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” 
—Chicago Tribune

“Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

Photo by Anne Fishbein