And I think it's great that they found a group of friends that they can share everything emotionally with and that's fantastic. And I feel for people who aren't accepted by their family or who just simply dislike their family.

On taking issue with the phrase “friends are the family you choose” She said, ‘How dare you mock these intelligent and sentient creatures?’ She demanded that I donate money to a bear rescue.” And the thing is that it was a fictional story and a woman in England wrote and chided me. And this bear winds up like in a wretched, kind of small circus where it kind of wears a skirt and dances around and has all of its teeth pulled - and people were just furious. And I wrote one about a bear whose mother dies and who just goes around trying to elicit sympathy from people talking about how her mother died just so she can take extra food and she can harvest pity. “Well, a number of years ago, I started writing, I guess you could call them fables.

On one of his fictional essays, “The Motherless Bear,” which generated a lot of anger from readers “I actually excluded it and I wanted its feelings to be hurt.” Interview Highlights

“I'm grateful that I wrote something that people enjoyed, but because it was my choice what went into this book, I was so happy to exclude it,” he says. Even though the 'Santaland Diaries' introduced him to NPR listeners around the world in 1992 and helped him become a recognized author, he “just can’t bear it.” He included many of his favorites over the years, but one adored story that many know and love - the ' Santaland Diaries,' an essay about Sedaris’ time as a Christmas elf at a Macy’s department store - is noticeably missing from the collection. So I chose things that I always looked forward to reading out loud,” he says. “It was originally just going to be an audio collection. There were a lot of pieces to choose from, but Sedaris says he narrowed it down easily. The humorist has picked his best essays from nearly 30 years of work and published them in a new collection called “The Best of Me.” If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris. Click here for David Sedaris' 2021-2022 tour dates. David Sedaris (Photo by Ingrid Christie) This article is more than 2 years old.Įditor's Note: This segment was rebroadcast on Oct.

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