Beautiful ❤

You’re so right! He’s a genuinely gracious and interested person, I think that’s just one of the many charms that makes him so fascinating.

He does indeed take the time. One reading in East Lansing he sat at a table for at least an hour before his show. He talked for several minutes to every single person who wanted a book signed. Had no entourage, no security on top of him. Just signed and chatted until no one was in the queue.

Tiffiny Harrington right?!? The fact he’s just solo makes it sort of instantly disarming, he just gets there early and hangs out, stays late and hangs out, the lines can be epic but he hangs on and that’s the mark if someone truly interested in others and someone who really appreciates their audience. He is a national treasure in the same vein as Mark Twain and I keep trying to get him on a stamp but the post office seems to think you can’t be alive to be on a stamp. I say to hell with the post office. And I have seen him in East Lansing too! Ann Arbor also!

kate carew Omg! I occasionally go up to Ann Arbor to shop. Where did you see him there? I swear I once saw Christopher Imperioli walking down Liberty St. near 4th.

winebox I go to his lectures :) Whenever he tours it seems he stops in Ann Arbor? A couple times he went to East Lansing too! I saw Seth Rogan with Anna Faris and Chris Pratt there once sitting outside at a coffee shop. I just walked by nodded my head as one does in A2 since it’s so friendly and they waved and said hi. Unfortunately I think it tipped off some people walking behind me who swarmed in for photos. When I left the coffee shop I said “hope you enjoy your stay” and they were chatty, asked about the town, said they liked the privacy...this was a decade ago roughly?? There are tons of celebrities in and around there, I saw Aretha Franklin at both Burger King and Meijer in Toledo 😂 She was hilarious and she was wearing jammies! She told the Burger King people to give free refills on milkshakes NOT JOKING. I live in a suburb of Toledo and Katie Holmes was a classmate and our dads worked together so I see her pretty often, she’s building a house on the river right down the road from me, saw her at the bank around Christmas and she showed me the plans. It’s really a very very small world! I think they film a lot around the Midwest because it’s relatively anonymous and there are a full four seasons and all kinds of scenery?

Fellow picker here also. I heard that he even does it at night.

Do you help? Could you?

Is he still there? It's embarrassing.

Have u listened to his read them? I think they funnier that way. Unless you’re deaf of course.

@@lz8927 a few excerps I have, yes. He brings the words to life, def funnier

LOL

@@lz8927 buahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Neato!!!! That’s a great experience!

they probably couldn't tell if it was offensive or not lol

Agreed!

It's funny because it's true. Mental illness is exhausting and takes up all your time.

Yes. The audience DID laugh on "I kept in touch with him" though.

I'll have to borrow that one lol.

You mean," There are so few people who are like him now?"

me too!!!!

He's right about the mental illness taking up most of ones time.

Totally agree. I have seen him live 4 times now and talked with him a couple times. I love reading his books more now because I always read them in his voice.

what happened then?? complete the story please...

That seems like the perfect question he'd want to be asked. Well done.

JRS One thank you! That actually touches me because I thought it seemed about right too but I’ve had people say I blew it. I’ll tell ya, one time I saw him in my hometown and I was early...we chatted at length and he asked about my house/immediate neighbors, I told him it was a hamlet, realized how ridiculous that sounded and said “it’s called The Hamlet and we eat omelettes in the hamlet”😜 It just fell out of my face and I felt abject horror but he busted out laughing and said “do you put a little hamlet in your omelette? A little cheeselette?” He was DISARMING and if you just forget for a second it’s him you can be yourself and since he’s nothing ever but himself you get a tiny moment of real camaraderie :) He jotted down something after the hamlet exchange, he told me he and Hugh had bought a home, that they looked at one called “Faggots Stack” and passed, he described the land and at this point he hadn’t published or maybe even written (published)about his life in England, he was fleshing that story out. During that lecture he read a line from his journal about his new home and as he said village he paused, looked at me (front row dork) crosses it off and opts for “hamlet” instead 😃and in that very moment I realized how deeply he takes in his exchanges with his fans and people in general. He takes EXTENSIVE notes diligently and I am guessing it’s what makes his writing seem so close, so relatable. He documents it in immediate moment than ruminating and trying to recapture the feelings that have a tendency to the ephemeral? I believe every word he’s ever put to paper has been subject to a possible change, his humility allows him to HEAR other options, it’s genius the way he exhibits a flexibility in writing... He said some lovely and memorable things that are private for him up to this point so I stay mum, but like a friend I walked away with the sense of being tied to my fellow man, he’s got that power with his storytelling but even more as just a person sitting near you. Treat yourself, go see him, take the time to meet him, he is a joy, a treasure and someone who can’t help but be fascinating and fascinated 🙏🏻

Luna sea Miele!!! I’m sorry, I’m just seeing this now!! This was also over a decade ago and his preference might’ve changed!! He laughed, he was chuckling and he answered me, SINCERELY. Pros and cons of canisters and bags and all the variables in this appliance, he had the Miele because he needed one STAT and where he was (France) it was one of the only options, he wanted and upright and Hugh wasn’t in the mood so it was a fast and efficient choice, he claimed he had no regrets but would probably succumb to a Dyson if they had animals. I will say it was a good ice breaker, no one was asking him anything and after I did THAT the folks opened up, he stayed easily an hour answering questions and he asked some too. He ALWAYS does. At the end he stayed to sign and speak with the endless line of fans. I figured I had my moment so I skipped past, but I heard him “she who vacuums lives a long and happy life!” I turned and he waved, I waved back and after that I examined my vacuum with his thoughtful response in my head, I kept my Dyson but he had good reasons.

kate carew : Love what you wrote; also how you wrote it. 🙏

Such an under-rated comment. We've seen him read 3-4 times now and it's always a delight. You really get the sense that he's just being himself, which is why the stories of him being kind to people off-stage come as no surprise. He signed our CD "to the fun San Carlos couple," but I struggle to remember why. He really hit the nail on the head when he talked about having "2 minute relationships." While that comes off as a joke at the surface, it really does make sense when you see him interact with people. Those are a very real two minutes. It doesn't mean you're life-long friends, but it doesn't mean the two minutes weren't genuine. I'm reading through his diaries (he published them, it's not like I broken into his home...) now and it's a whole different style than his essays/stories. You laugh a lot less, but it's still somehow just as interesting to read. His observations on the world are just....different.

okay the way he also did this to me omg

Sedaris’ tale of Tokyo visit is a hoot

I went to a reading and took all of the books of his that I own with me (basically any his published, in german and in english). he drew and wrote in each single one of them ... branches, flowers, men in hats ... but in the oldest one, the one with with I started reading his works, is over 20 years old and torn and taped and loved to pieces. he grinned and sort of admired it and in the front he just wrote "This Is Old." it's my most precious possession. meeting mr sedaris and getting to talk him was one of the things on my bucket list.

I never thought anything could be funnier than reading one of his essays, until I heard him reading one of his essays.

Simon Five No, it’s the paperback version of a brilliant book that’s been out for months and months.

when I went to a reading, I took ALL of his books that I own (many, because I read in german and english) and he signed them all and doodled into all of them.

@@anrato3866 To me that is outstanding!

He exposes the fragile beauty even more.

Start your diary now.

Have you read his books? He's written some stuff that gives quite a bit of detail about his family life.

@@ogivecrush never got around to it actually, i've listened to david reading exerts, and a lecture once i think. i'll put him on the my reading list today, but it's a long list right now, i've gotten behind on my reading, most of what i read is politics and history, civil rights, activism, stuff like that.

tomitstube you don’t have time to read good things because you’re too busy making stupid comments. The whole point of his books is to talk about his family

@@M_SC as far a "stupid comments" go, i can't compete with the one you just made.

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Arina Shórokhova Me Talk Pretty One day!

New Message I thought well he does live in England now. 😊

Which one? :p

Niko Batallones Rackham, West Sussex

He doesnt live in England and his boyfriend dressed him. They are an amazing couple and they actually own like 5 houses in 4 countries.

Martin Rayner yeah he came to my town and they were in the hundreds.

Really?

what a pity, seems to be a regional thing. I went to see him in Vienna in 2019 and front row was 26 euros.

They are only $50 in la