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THE BEST OF ME
A charming bird journey with the bestselling author.
In his introduction to Tan’s “nature journal,” David Allen Sibley, the acclaimed ornithologist, nails the spirit of this book: a “collection of delightfully quirky, thoughtful, and personal observations of birds in sketches and words.” For years, Tan has looked out on her California backyard “paradise”—oaks, periwinkle vines, birch, Japanese maple, fuchsia shrubs—observing more than 60 species of birds, and she fashions her findings into delightful and approachable journal excerpts, accompanied by her gorgeous color sketches. As the entries—“a record of my life”—move along, the author becomes more adept at identifying and capturing them with words and pencils. Her first entry is September 16, 2017: Shortly after putting up hummingbird feeders, one of the tiny, delicate creatures landed on her hand and fed. “We have a relationship,” she writes. “I am in love.” By August 2018, her backyard “has become a menagerie of
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The First David Sedaris Movie
His books are so good that inom never really wondered what a David Sedaris movie would be like. Someone else did, though: director Kyle Patrick Alvarez. And the resulting film, C.O.G., based on a story from Naked, premiered at Sundance this week. It marks the first time Sedaris has licensed a film based on his work, though perhaps not the last. Sedaris has written directly for the screen at least once, with the 1995 short film Smoking, directed by Matthew Modine. (He also wrote for the mid-’90s Comedy Central Show Exit 57, which featured Stephen Colbert as well as Sedaris’ sister Amy.)
C.O.G. (which stands for “child of God”) concerns a pompous Yale graduate named David, who, seeking a change in life and furious at his parents, takes a job picking apples in Oregon, partly inspired by Steinbeck. David, roughly modeled on Sedaris himself, is played by a likable Jonathan Groff. Before the film I asked Sedaris if he had ever thought of playing hims
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David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (born månad 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
Quotes
[edit]- "I love things made out of animals," Sedaris says, holding a knife with a hoof for a handle. "It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.'"
- I read "Revolutionary Road" once a year. Aside from its word-by-word construction, I love how his characters deceive themselves.
- from the Praise for Revolutionary Road section at the front of the Vintage 2007 paperback edition of that 1961 novel.
Barrel Fever (1994)
[edit]- What did Trish's mother say when her daughter, hjärtekrossad over her breakup with Randy, came to her in search of love and understanding?
'If you're looking for sympathy you can find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.'- Story, "The last you'll hear from me" - p.23 [page numbers per the Abacus paperback edition, 2011 reprint]