Author

David Sedaris

David Sedaris is the American humorist and essayist behind Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Calypso (2018), When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008), Happy-Go-Lucky (2022), and the published Theft by Finding (2017) and A Carnival of Snackery (2021) diary collections. Sedaris is the canonical contemporary American humor essayist.

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5.0

First published

2018

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Calypso

by David Sedaris

Calypso by David Sedaris 2018 review. Twenty-one essays organized around Sedaris's Emerald Isle beach house and the death of one sister. Sedaris's most ambitious essay collection and the late-career return to form.