An Evening with David Sedaris - SOLD OUT

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An Evening with David Sedaris – SOLD OUT

May 9, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays. His new book, Happy-Go-Lucky, debuted at number one on the New York Times best-seller list. Sedaris and his sister, actress Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at Lincoln Center. Sedaris has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. In 2019 David Sedaris became a regular contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and his Masterclass, David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor, was released. There are over 16 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years. “Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” —Chicago Tribune. Don’t miss this chance to see David Sedaris live at the Historic Temple Theatre on May 9.

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Date:
May 9, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm
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Venue

The Historic Temple Theatre
116 S Main St.
Viroqua, WI United States
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Phone
608-637-8190
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