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100 Years of Writer’s Digest

As the editors of WD pondered the role of truth in writing, we decided to showcase highlights from David Sedaris’s WD Interview with editor-at-large Jessica Strawser from the October 2013 issue of WD. Sedaris is currently on tour across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia telling his trademark hilarious yet poignant true stories.

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