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Reading David Sedaris

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To paraphrase Heidi Klum, in the world of literature, one day you're in and the next day you're out. Once-golden boys James Frey, Augusten Burroughs, and David Sedaris have all recently learned this lesson — the latter two for embellishing and rehashing the themes that made them famous in the first place. Sedaris, however, doesn't deserve the critical cooling. His sixth memoir, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, may cover familiar ground, but it's still heavy with laugh-out-loud shenanigans: scoring drugs in a North Carolina mobile home, an oddly motivated Japanese vacation, and, of course, family time.

– Julian Hooper

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