Sedaris Off the Page

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5527272.post-67800574433734773792008-12-30T19:05:00.001-02:002008-12-30T19:05:33.396-02:00Sedaris Off the Page<img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Sedaris Off the Page" align="left" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/08/arts/08lyal.1-190.jpg" width="190" height="298" />By MELENA RYZIK David Sedaris, the essay-writing Paris resident from North Carolina, is embarking on a 30-city tour to promote his new book, “When You Are Engulfed in Flames.” David Sedaris is now such a literary rock star that he can play <a target="_blank" href="http://lincolncenter.org">Lincoln Center’s</a> Avery Fisher Hall. Luckily, it’s not quite sold out, so there are tickets left for his reading there tonight. His latest collection, “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” which revolves around his struggle to quit smoking, is squarely midlife crisis material, writes Vanessa Grigoriadis, who nonetheless finds it delightful. Its themes are, yes, death and dying, but also “the French countryside, art collecting and feces.” “<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Grigoriadis-t.html?8ur&emc=ur">Up in Smoke</a>,” by Vanessa Grigoriadis “<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/08lyal.html?8ur&emc=ur">What You Read Is What He Is, Sort Of</a>,” by Sarah Lyall <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5527272-6780057443373477379?l=www.verdestrigos.org%2Fagora%2Fblogger.asp' alt='' /></div>VerdesTrigosnoreply@blogger.com