Frances Wilson

How does David Sedaris get away with saying the unsayable?

The bestselling American humorist continues to record his outrageous exchanges with both family and strangers in his latest volume of diaries

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  • A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume II

    David Sedaris

    Little Brown, pp. 576, £25

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