For those of you who are not familiar, he’s an author, humorist, frequent contributor to NPR’s This American Life and the New Yorker. And he’s brilliant.
De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam hosted him, on the occasion of his new book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. De Rode Hoed is a very small venue, which provided a relatively close and intimate atmosphere.
During his appearance, he read three stories, including one from his new book. The readings were followed by a lively Q&A session and a book signing. I am a fan, to this was truly a treat.
After a 15 minute wait in the line, where Brad and I attempted to think of what clever and witty things we were going to say to him (none of which we did, of course), it was finally our turn.
After a brief introduction, we chatted with him for about 2 minutes, as he drew an owl inside the front cover of our book and described a platter he just purchased in Amsterdam, which had a large uncircumcised penis painted in the middle.
A Sedaris original:
Unfortunately we don’t have a foto of the aforementioned platter.
2 comments:
I had never heard of Sedaris when my brother lent me his book, "Me Talk Pretty One Day." I read the whole thing on a plane ride back from Germany and irritated the hell out of everyone else on board because I could not stop laughing uncontrollably. Felicitados! Did you get a photo with the man? That would've been cool, but just meeting him is great anyway I'm sure.
Nice post! He was small in stature, but funny in deed!
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