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David Sedaris brings X-ray vision to this strip search of the human psyche, sparing no one-including himself...His work is characterized by a brazen candor, a heart of gold, and the most blithely sophisticated, loopy humor that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. -- ""Entertainment Weekly"" Genuinely funny, at time hilarious...Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium...Highly likable and spirited throughout. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Hilariously entertaining...The essays in Naked re-create the cathartic, the spiritual experience of laughing so hard that it hurts. -- ""Francine Prose, New York Observer"" Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in The Gold Rush-this is splendid stuff. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" This collection of biographical stories from playwright and National Public Radio commentator Sedaris are at times heartwarming, poignant, sad, and laugh-out-loud funny. -- ""Library Journal""

"David Sedaris brings X-ray vision to this strip search of the human psyche, sparing no one-including himself...His work is characterized by a brazen candor, a heart of gold, and the most blithely sophisticated, loopy humor that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. -- ""Entertainment Weekly"" Genuinely funny, at time hilarious...Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium...Highly likable and spirited throughout. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Hilariously entertaining...The essays in Naked re-create the cathartic, the spiritual experience of laughing so hard that it hurts. -- ""Francine Prose, New York Observer"" Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in The Gold Rush-this is splendid stuff. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" This collection of biographical stories from playwright and National Public Radio commentator Sedaris are at times heartwarming, poignant, sad, and laugh-out-loud funny. -- ""Library Journal"""

Hilariously entertaining...The essays in Naked re-create the cathartic, the spiritual experience of laughing so hard that it hurts. -- Francine Prose, New York Observer David Sedaris brings X-ray vision to this strip search of the human psyche, sparing no one-including himself...His work is characterized by a brazen candor, a heart of gold, and the most blithely sophisticated, loopy humor that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. -- Entertainment Weekly Genuinely funny, at time hilarious...Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium...Highly likable and spirited throughout. -- Publishers Weekly Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in The Gold Rush-this is splendid stuff. -- Kirkus Reviews This collection of biographical stories from playwright and National Public Radio commentator Sedaris are at times heartwarming, poignant, sad, and laugh-out-loud funny. -- Library Journal

This collection of biographical stories from playwright and National Public Radio commentator Sedaris are at times heartwarming, poignant, sad, and laugh-out-loud funny. -- Library Journal Sedaris applies the same deadpan fastidiousness to his life that Charlie Chaplin applied to his shoe in The Gold Rush-this is splendid stuff. -- Kirkus Reviews Hilariously entertaining...The essays in Naked re-create the cathartic, the spiritual experience of laughing so hard that it hurts. -- Francine Prose, New York Observer Genuinely funny, at time hilarious...Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium...Highly likable and spirited throughout. -- Publishers Weekly David Sedaris brings X-ray vision to this strip search of the human psyche, sparing no one-including himself...His work is characterized by a brazen candor, a heart of gold, and the most blithely sophisticated, loopy humor that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. -- Entertainment Weekly

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David Sedaris is a playwright and a regular commentator for National Public Radio. He is also the author of the bestselling Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. He travels extensively through Europe and the United States on lecture tours and lives in England. Amy Sedaris has appeared frequently on screen, both large and small. She is co-creator, with Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, of Comedy Central's hit show Strangers with Candy and half of the Obie-winning Talent Family playwright team, with her brother, David. Amy lives in Manhattan with her imaginary boyfriend, Ricky, and her pet rabbit, Dusty.

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