David Sedaris
The NPR Storyteller of Queer Absurdity and Dysfunction
Queer, weird, and always late to the party.
Born in Raleigh to a Greek-American family of six, I grew up collecting the tiny, tragicomic details of suburban life. I dropped out of college, bounced through odd jobs, and eventually landed in New York—then Paris, where I learned French the hard way: by being mocked by my teacher. My essays are just me picking at the scabs of daily life: holiday trauma, Fitbit obsessions, and the strange comfort of shared dysfunction.
What I'm Into: family dysfunction, holiday disasters, French classrooms, Fitbit obsessions, shared apartment wars
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