The book is out on May 26th, and I buy every David Sedaris book and listen to it about a thousand times, so whatever it turns out to be, I highly recommend it.
The title, after all the fuss about "testicles" (the word), turns out to be "The Land and Its People" (commission earned).
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The Land and Its People?
More like, "It'll be over soon, Darling, when this sand pit collapses around us."
Or does the parenthetical "Darling" make it sound too much like Trump?
working title: "Nuts To You"
Balls.
You always know when you find your title except when you don’t…
Who the hell are these prudish bookstore people? I het that bookstores are experiencing a rebound but I wouldn’t think they’d have earned the balls to boycott an author that sells…
A book with a repellent title was a major part of the movie American Fiction.
I went to Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater about a month ago to see/hear David Sedaris. He’s amusing and he does something that few have done since Mark Twain. He reads and talks for two hours. However, homoerotic themes are not for me.
I just pre-ordered it. On sale for less than eight bucks. And over 7 hours long. I enjoy his stuff, even if he is mentally ill because he is a good writer and makes me laugh.
The bookstores that would have objected are certainly not the ones that have shelves full of trans stuff for "young adults"
This is not a criticism of David Sedaris or of people who find him amusing. It's more an observation of a complete blind spot that I have.
I would place myself in the top few percent of people whose theory of mind allows the understanding of other people's views and opinions, even when they are very, very different from my own. For the life of me, I draw a complete blank trying to understand what people find funny or interesting about David Sedaris. I'm talking a total flatline, not moving the needle at all...as if he were among the most ignorable people in the world. Normally, I have a flicker of interest about anyone.
It truly perplexes me, as I count people who find him essential reading/listening to be among my closest friends, yet that part of their minds remains completely out of my grasp.
“ so whatever it turns out to be, I highly recommend it.”
Without reading the book?
I just started Doug Brunt’s new book about Emanuel Nobel. I highly recommend it.
The late British humorist Alan Coren put out a book called Golfing for Cats, with a big swastika on the cover. He figured that golf, cats, and swastikas sold books. Subsequent editions after the 1975 original sported a picture of a cat playing golf.
Some found this cover offensive
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Is he saying that the old testicles of spring are preferred? Or is this like the December days song, where decline is irrecoverable.
A joke,
A prof says, it’s Friday I’m going to administer a short quizzie. After the event, a coed says, “ if that was one of his quizzies, I would hate to see one of his testes.”
This is the person meade refused to show his vaccination card to the usher to attend, and sat in the lobby in a snit, refusing to enter the presentation you bought him a ticket for, even though he is vaccinated, right? Lol. These taste differences -- she loves David unconditionally sight unseen like a Stephen King or James Patterson or Danielle Steele loyalist -- he's not so much into gay funnymen or Woody Allen or being loyal to effeminate gay artists for their own sake -- used to fill the pages of the ladies magazines... Is This Marriage Worth Saving 🤔 ? Just sayin... Covid is over and David still tours...
He is rocking the Truman Capote look.
A testicle will drop frozen dead from a sparrow without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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