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The Best Late Night Clips Of The Week

Matt Wilstein | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Daily Show, Hannibal Buress, Jay Leno, Tenacious D, Rashida Jones, Ron Paul, Craig Ferguson, Mitt Romney, Jimmy Kimmel, Brian Williams, David Sedaris, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Slidepollajax, Slideexpand, Comedy News

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were on vacation, but Conan O'Brien in particular picked up the slack, not only having a great week on his own show, but also popping up in New York on Letterman to lay into Jay Leno in a way he hasn't done since everything went down more than two years ago.

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Mike Daisey Outraged Over New NPR Scrutiny

Posted 05.15.2012

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Mike Daisey is outraged over the latest debate about fact-checking humorist David Sedaris in the wake of his own journalistic transgressions at "This ...

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The Opening of the Smith Center

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Smith Center, Arts Management, Any Given Child, Joshua Bell, Academy of St. Martins in the Fields, Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Cleveland Orchestra, Las Vegas, Arts Education, David Sedaris, Smith Center Las Vegas, Culture News

What is especially exciting is that the rationale for the Center has little to do with the millions of people who travel to Las Vegas every year to enjoy the hotels, gambling and shows for which Las Vegas has become famous.

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LiePad: Why Nonfiction Writers Must Never Change the Facts

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.21.2012

Can a writer working in the realm of nonfiction ever change the facts because he's Making Art or Delivering an Important Message? The view of basically every respected journalist is Hell No. But a new book takes the opposite view.

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Idiot's Guide to Belly Laughing

Anastasia Rubis | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Funny, I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Humor, Bridesmaids, Books, Woody Allen, Laughing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bill Cosby, Belly Laughs, Movies, David Sedaris, Bert and Ernie, Lol, Ricky Gervais, Comedians, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Wanda Sykes, Daily Show, It's Complicated, Anastasia Rubis, Youtube, Tina Fey, Colbert Report, Impractical Jokers, Autocorrect, Comedy, Laugh Out Loud, Video, Comedy News

Imagine sipping a latte at your local coffee shop, and some crazy dude in the rest room throws open the door and hollers for more toilet paper. He's perched on the bowl, hairy legs spread apart. What would you do?

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Miami Events This Weekend

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Liv, Weekend Guide, Space Christmas, Miami, Matzo Ball, Santaland, David Sedaris, Miami News

Wallets are tapped, bellies are full, and families are annoying. It must be the holidays. But whether you're curling up under the Christmas tree in a ...

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What To Do This Weekend In New York

Posted 12.12.2011

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WORD: Holiday Open House Where: WORD, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn; (718) 383-0096 When: Saturday, 11AM-9PM Price: Donations suggested Greenpoint...

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Literary Seductions

Allison Hill | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Future of Reading, Books, Haruki Murakami, Literary Seductions, The Future of Books, Seduction, Amazon Kindle, Vroman's Bookstore, Bookstores, Fitzgerald, David Sedaris, Joan Didion, Mark Danielewski, Digital Content, Allison Hill, Reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

I once slept with a man because he gave me a copy of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Before you judge me, read the book. It's lyrical and seductive and changes the way you think about reality, about life.

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The Wicked Art of Memoir Making

Peter Brown Hoffmeister | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Microsoft, Celebrity Memoirs, The New Yorker, Memoirs, Alice Sebold, Paul Allen, Harper Collins, Bill Gates, Mary Karr, Denise Oswald, David Sedaris, Books News

Memoirs are often written by the spurned lover, the abused child, the disenfranchised group member. Some memoir writers haven't dealt with their pasts, using the print medium to get even.

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15 Most Hilarious Author Quotes

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: George Carlin, Bernie Mac, Hunter S. Thompson, Humor Books, Slidepollajax, Authors-Twitter, Fran Lebowitz, Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Books News

While editing my new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion, I made a discovery: "If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn."

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Amy Sedaris Wants You To Come Over

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.02.2011

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Amy Sedaris does what she wants these days. The North Carolina-bred writer and performer has had her hands in everything from offbeat, Canadian televi...

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PHOTOS: Sedaris Siblings Light Up Gough Street Playhouse

Carly Schwartz | Posted 10.03.2011

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We love David for his uncanny ability to turn the mundane into the hysterical. We love Amy for her bizarre, cringe-inducing sense of humor. Combining ...

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David Sedaris Insults China, Offends Fan

sfgate.com | Ho | Posted 09.28.2011

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The satirist thinks Chinese people (and food) are repulsive, which makes former Sedaris-fan Jeff Yang sad. ...

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Bad Trips: Wonderful Essays About Awful Travel Experiences

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.14.2011

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Vacations are sacred, especially in America, where we work longer hours than our counterparts in Europe and still aren’t legally entitled to a singl...

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Return To Return To Forever: Chatting With Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke, Plus John Common and Author Dr. Tony Youn

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Scrubs, Sarah Vaughn, Return to Forever, Tina Turner, Thelonius Monk, What's Love Got to Do With It: The Tina Turner Story, James Taylor, Stan Getz, David Sedaris, Publisher's Weekly, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jason and the Scorchers, Chaka Khan, Lenny White, Romeo Must Die, Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Henderson, The Velvet Underground, Horace Cilver, Billy Connors, Billie Holiday, Kiss, John Common, Daniel Lanois, Ornette Coleman, Blue Mitchell, The Transporter, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Flora Purim, Leonard Cohen, Dr. Tony Youn, Rachel Ray, Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, The Replacements, Art Blakey, Stanley Clarke, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Joe Farrell, Airto Moreira, Miles Davis, Pee Wee?S Playhouse, The Beatles, The Clash, John Coltrane, Al Di Meola, The CBS Early Show, Charles Mingus, Rock of Ages, Boyz in the Hood, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, John Singleton, Jet Li, Genesis, Bob Dylan, The Cars, Tom Waits, Jean-Luc Ponty, Chet Baker, The Doors, Bill Evans, Jackson Browne, Steve Gadd, Barry Manilow, R.E.M., Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News

Chick Corea's new album, Forever, is a two-disc set, with the first disc being acoustic, and the second disc with a full band and guests. For the first disc, I asked him if it was a return to Return To Forever.

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What David Sedaris Teaches Us About Middle Age

Delia Lloyd | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Why David Sedaris Is Such a Good Writer, Garrison Keillor, Frank Mccourt, The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris Readings, David Sedaris, Books News

If you aren't familiar with Sedaris, listen to "Santaland Diaries" -- a diary of his Christmas as an elf at Macy's -- which catapulted him to fame. It generated more requests for tapes than any story in Morning Edition history.

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2011 Audiobook Of The Year Award Announced

Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.25.2011

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On Tuesday night the Audio Publishers Association held its 16th annual Audies Gala in New York City. The press release says the event is often referre...

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PHOTOS: 10 Uplifting Books For Lonely Souls

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Tom Robbins, Bridget Jones's Diary, Still Life With Woodpecker, A Peoople's History of the United States, Vida, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, David Sedaris, Helen Fielding, High Fidelity, Michael Chabon, Howard Zinn, Nick Hornby, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Paulo Coelho, Uplifting Books, The Alchemist, Diane Ackerman, Books News

In response to Russ Marshalek’s excellent post on devastatingly sad books last week, we’ve decided to try and lift your spirits a little during th...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News' Shepard Smith and Success of 'It Gets Better' Project

Joshua Kors | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Terry Miller, Michael Cunningham, Dan Savage, Ellen Degeneres, Lesbian, Savage U., Anderson Cooper, Lbgt, Defense of Marriage Act, David Sedaris, Dr. Drew, It Gets Better Project, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Queer Youth, Dr. Phil, Dadt, Gay Teen Suicide, Bisexual, Bowling for Columbine, Colbert Report, Bill Maher, South Park, Valerie Jarrett, Shepard Smith, President Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Adam Carolla, Stephen Colbert, Savage Love, Gay, Harvey Milk, Fox News, Doma, Gay Marriage, Video, Politics News

Savage caught the eye of the nation following a string of suicides by gay youths, when he and husband Terry Miller posted a video telling gay children that if they can hold on, life does get better.

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Can Memoir Be Trusted?

Michael Levy | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Greg Mortenson, Augusten Burroughs, Three Cups of Tea, Dreams From My Father, Malcolm X, Memoir, Barack Obama, China, David Sedaris, James Frey, Fiction, Nonfiction, Books News

Memoir, as its Latin root indicates, is a selection of subjective, often partially forgotten, memories. Readers do not expect memoirists to be journalists. What matters is trust.

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Book Events In LA: Dinners, Festivals And Stand Up

| Katie Bain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Central Library, Gabrielle Hamilton, Alicia Portnay, Susan Salter Reynolds, Gronk, Ramon Garcia, LA Times Festival of Books, La Around Town, David Sedaris, Los Angeles News

Story courtesy of City's Best. By Katie Bain Los Angeles is a hive of literary achievement, with an incredible cache of top-notch writing talent...

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Twelve Months Til Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lee Remick, I Do! I Do!, Oy Vey in a Manger, Handel, Daniel Massey, Jon Cryer, Carol Lawrence, Kelsey Venter, Nutcracker, Black Nativity, In the Good Old Summertime, Rock Hudson, Barbara Baxley, David Sedaris, Jerry Bock, Messiah, Nathaniel Frey, Hansel Und Gretel, Jason Zinoman, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Martin, Daddy Long Legs, The Fantasticks, QMR Records, Valerie Vigoda, Ryan Drummond, Gordon MacRae, Radio City Music Hall, Jack Cassidy, The Little Match Girl, Jean Webster, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Irving Berlin?S White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Toy Story: The Musical, Paul Gordon, Rockettes, Barbara Cook, Robert Adelman Hancock, Jan De Hartog, Gower Champion, Hal Linden, 110 in the Shade, Karen Ziemba, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Christmas Revels, My Cup Runneth Over, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Carol Burnett, David Garrison, Robert Preston, The Shop Around the Corner, The Santaland Diaries, Brendan Milburn, Striking 12, Harold Prince, Brittany Ogle, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, Ed Ames, Long Story Short, Macon Little Theatre, Center Rep, Megan McGinnis, Kinsey Sicks, Rubicon Theatre Company, John Caird, She Loves Me, You?Ve Got Mail, The Fourposter, Theatreworks, Electrofulguration, Humperdinck, Groovelily, Arts News

For most people, the holiday season is over and done with. Christmas decorations have been put back into storage and the tree has been disposed of. But for arts entrepreneurs the situation is quite different.

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7 Of The Funniest Books About Christmas (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christmas brings with it presents, eggnog and time off of work ... and, well, lots of headaches. To get through the all the family gatherings and argu...

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Oh Please:

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sedaris says he left a tip jar on his signing table at a book tour and made a grand total of $4,000. At the end of his "best evening", in Dallas, he s...

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