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an evening with david sedaris

April 16 • 8pm
Tickets: $15 - $40
The Futch Ballroom in the University Center / see a map
Parking: There is ample parking at the University Center.

It’s hard to live up to such lavish praise as “the funniest man alive” (Time Out New York) and frequent comparisons to no less than Mark Twain, but somehow David Sedaris manages. The best-selling author, noted radio commentator, twotime Grammy nominee, essayist, editor and playwright makes his Tallahassee debut for this special Seven Days of Opening Nights performance, which features a reading and book signing.

Sedaris’ collections of “brutally honest and brilliantly eloquent” (Booklist) observational essays have struck a chord with the literary public, as his last six books have quickly found a perch atop the New York Times Best Sellers List. He has reached a wide audience via his radio commentaries on National Public Radio, and has been named Time Magazine’s Humorist of the Year, as well as winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. His essays are published in Esquire and The New Yorker, and his hilarious personal appearances sell out across the country. One such performance was documented on the CD Live at Carnegie Hall, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2005.

Sedaris has truly become “a writer worth treasuring” (Seattle Times).

 

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