A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation.
His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces,
including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to
learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant
Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks
incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one
hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as
restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers
with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain
and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors.