Little, Brown £18.99
I shall begin with a disclaimer of sorts: parts of this review may be motivated by envy.
For what Sedaris does is, essentially, what I do in the New Statesman: that is, mine my personal life for humorous or wry observations. The crucial difference is that Sedaris is, by several orders of magnitude, wealthier than me.
To illustrate: I live in a tiny one- bedroom flat in Brighton which I can barely
