OK, so he isn't coming to the Celebrity Series until May 3, but I can't pass up a chance to post on David Sedaris.
In this week's "Shouts and Murmurs" in The New Yorker, Sedaris gives us a glimpse of how his family caught the art collecting bug. In Suitable for Framing, A Family of Experts, he chronicles his own burgeoning hobby, how it was co-opted by his parents and, finally, the art he and his siblings ultimately came to treasure most:
"One by one, my sisters and I left home, and the back yard became a dumping ground. Snakes nested beneath broken bicycles and piles of unused building supplies, but on return visits we would each screw up our courage and step onto the patio for an audience with Mr. Toadstool. 'You and that lawn ornament,” my mom would say. “Honest to God, you’d think you’d been raised in a trailer.'"
Read the complete New Yorker essay.
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