His public follows his lead in enjoying, or at least experiencing, a frisson of weirdness and distaste from looking at the bizarre. He has always been interested in the unusual and freakish aspects of human nature, and somehow makes them acceptable and accessible to a mass audience. Happy-Go-Lucky features a shudder-inducing clown and cheerful little girl on its book jacket and even in its electronic versions. In this case, you should judge a book by its cover. So where has his mordant wit taken us in Happy-Go-Lucky, his most recent release? We long-time readers consider ourselves honorary members of his family, who are often the subject of his satirical essays. With his extensive book tours followed by long, conversational book signings, he has even made his self-promotion fun and collaborative. After starting out reading essays on NPR in the 1990s, Sedaris continued with books such as Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and Calypso. In the last twenty-five years the writer David Sedaris has gained what could oddly be called a mainstream cult following not only in the United States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries, but also all over the world.
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