David Sedaris

Happy-Go-Lucky

Ozge Kara

Listened to this as an audiobook. I really like David Sedaris stories and he is an excellent narrator. I very much enjoyed the stories about his relationship whit his dad. I am also happy that he didn’t continue to experiment with the fictional short stories he had in in his previous book. I like his creative non-fiction style. 
Of course, as in his every book, there were some stories repeating. Like those that were already published elsewhere or some in his own previous books. 
Every year I tell myself that I will not buy another David Sedaris book because by the time I read almost all of his stories in the New Yorker etc. but I still do because he is good. 
I hope he can write more about his relationship with Hugh. Hugh seems like a very interesting person.

I think I've been a bit let down with a couple of Sedaris' more recent books, so I didn't have much hope for this one. I was wrong. It was a delight to read, and I chucked and read aloud some funny bits to my husband. Not all are winners, but such is the case with a collection of essays. Enjoyable. 

Jeannette Ordas

Jeremy Boyd

Cindy Lieberman

The author visits some of his favorite topics (shopping, working with Amy, speaking French, Hugh) and adds new material related to aging, teeth, COVID, book tours, and death. Now that his father has died, the gloves have come off and we learn how truly difficult it has been for David and his siblings, and how their father may have been responsible in no small way for Tiffany’s suicide. Yes it is still a very funny book with bits that made me laugh out loud. I would occasionally pause the audiobook and repeat some of the lines to my husband. But at other times, and because I’ve been listening to David Sedaría tell me his stories for decades, it felt like a punch to the gut. I hope it was cathartic for some of these stories to finally come to light.

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.

Roger Amundsen

Leland Foster

The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Calypso 'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian

Michael Klepacki

Fien Visser

Audrey

Laura Mei

Stephen Schenkenberg

Catherine Nicolai

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Praise for Calypso 'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky

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