![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Right from the off, you’re laughing along at vicious fare like ‘Front Row Centre With Thaddeus Bristol’, and any parent who tells you they don’t sympathise with Mr Bristol at the school play is telling you lies. It’s a handsome edition and should make the perfect gift for the smart arse – or would-be smart arse – in your life. The Best Of Me, as the title might suggest, is a sort of greatest hits collection, selected by Sedaris from nearly thirty years at the typewriter. If it’s in The New Yorker, on the other hand, and you don’t like it, there’s something wrong with you.” ![]() According to the man himself, getting his foot in the door at The New Yorker in 1995 was the big deal though, “If you read an essay in Esquire and don’t like it, there could be something wrong with the essay. His appearances on the late night shows like Craig Ferguson’s much-missed gag fest were always good gas and all. Sedaris’ essays have been making those in the know laugh since the early nineties when he made his breakthrough, first on Chicago local radio, and then on NPR with his ‘Santaland Diaries’ essay, which documented the seasonal joys of working as a elf in a Christmas department store. ![]()
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