5/22/2023 0 Comments David sedaris talk pretty one day![]() ![]() Fuel - as is everything he comes in contact with - for the furnace of creativity he can become while working on a book. He is curious about almost everyone and everything and occasionally, when he finds something especially noteworthy, he pulls out a battered little spiral book and jots himself a note. Sedaris' curiosity is large and very real. ![]() I find myself wondering what Hugh would make of Sedaris' lunchtime obsession with our server. In fact, he shares his Paris home with Hugh Hamrick, the person he refers to frequently as his boyfriend. Those who have read any of David Sedaris' work at all know that he's openly and happily gay. "And her skin! You know," he adds quite seriously. "She's beautiful," he breathes, as though this were the most natural thing in the world. ![]() ![]() His eyes follow her as she goes about her chirpy duties in the crowded restaurant. She is a pale blonde, perhaps 20, with perfect skin and eyes the color of bottled water. He is completely fascinated by our waitress. Now I just wish that all those people had been worse. I could write a story about being beaten by a key chain. Like, I wish my school had corporal punishment. You want to live on Park Avenue and have a house full of servants and you live in Raleigh, North Carolina or Phoenix, Arizona or. If you hate that time in your life, it's not what you had in mind. ![]()
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