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Calypso

David Sedaris

  • 272 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2018
  • 17 editions
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1 About this book

Calypso is a collection of 21 semi-autobiographical essays by David Sedaris. It was published on May 29, 2018 by Little, Brown and Company. Fourteen of the 21 essays were previously published in a magazine or newspaper; some of these were published under a different title or in a different form.

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Good for readers who want: humor, a true life story, and essays.

  • American wit and humor
  • Humor, essays
  • Humorists
  • Humor
  • American Humorists
  • Biography
  • Essays
  • Aging

2 About David Sedaris

Born 1956

David Raymond Sedaris ( sih-DAIR-iss; born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994.

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