David Sedaris Concepts

Happy-Go-Lucky

by David Sedaris · 30 May 2022 · 206pp · 64,212 words

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Pearls Fresh-Caught Haddock Happy-Go-Lucky A Better Place Lady Marmalade Smile, Beautiful Pussytoes Lucky-Go-Happy Discover More About the Author Also by David Sedaris For Ted Woestendiek Ban everything. Purify everything. Moral cleanse everything. Anything that was bad or is bad, destroy it. Especially in the forest, where you

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from then until the time we left, my name was Mike, which was more than a little demoralizing. Not getting the “Wait a minute—the David Sedaris?” I have come to expect when meeting someone was bad enough, but being turned into a Mike, of all things? I thought of the time

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opened the door, there she was. “Oh, Jesus,” she called, her right hand pinching her nose, her shoulders hunched as if she might throw up. “David Sedaris, what in heaven’s name did you do in there? My God, the stench!” Everyone looked our way as, for the second time that afternoon

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panties. Discover Your Next Great Read Get sneak peeks, book recommendations, and news about your favorite authors. Tap here to learn more. About the Author DAVID SEDARIS is the author of twelve previous books, including, most recently, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, and Calypso. He is a regular contributor

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recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor. Also by David Sedaris A Carnival of Snackery The Best of Me Calypso Theft by Finding Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk When You Are Engulfed

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

by David Sedaris · 22 Apr 2013

, then falls asleep till nature calls. He poops a stool, then, though it’s heinous, bends back down and licks his anus. About the Author David Sedaris is the author of the books Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty

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to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England. davidsedarisbooks.com facebook.com/davidsedaris Download the David’s Diary app. Books by David Sedaris Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk When You Are Engulfed in Flames Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Me Talk Pretty One Day Holidays on Ice Naked

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Friendly People Rubbish Day In, Day Out Mind the Gap A Cold Case The Happy Place Dog Days About the Author Books by David Sedaris Newsletters Copyright Copyright © 2013 by David Sedaris Cover design and illustration by Emily Burns Cover copyright © 2013 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. All rights reserved. In accordance with the

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris · 4 Jun 2001 · 221pp · 67,514 words

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Bag Picka Pocketoni I Almost Saw This Girl Get Killed Smart Guy The Late Show I’ll Eat What He’s Wearing Also by David Sedaris Acclaim for David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day “Blisteringly funny.” — David Cobb Craig, People “His most sidesplitting work to date. The stories chronicling Sedaris’s time

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comic build of these stories had me howling in the airport, my hands shaking, my eyes glistening with tears.” — Sarah Hepola, Austin Chronicle “Mercy, mercy! David Sedaris is dangerously funny.” — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Hilarious and insightful.… Mr. Sedaris may not talk pretty, but he does write funny

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seem constantly surrounded by surreal events and situations.… The book is laugh-out-loud funny, witty, trenchant, and over far too soon.” — Chris Barsanti, Book “David Sedaris has one of the most shameless, acid, vaulting wits on planet earth.… Each essay is a delight.” — Adam F. Kay, Boston Book Review “A student

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highbrow sarcasm of Fran Lebowitz, and the social commentary of Oscar Wilde.” — James Reed, Columbia Missourian “There is no contemporary writer as reliably funny as David Sedaris. His best humor seems to come from the same place as — dare I think it? — Mark Twain’s. It’s dark and suffering, extremely caustic

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, Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Sedaris’s genius lies in transforming strangeness, obsessive voyeurism, and endearingly snotty observations into wildly entertaining art.” — Rob Stout, Providence Journal “David Sedaris is our generation’s James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, Woody Allen, and Mark Twain wrapped in a compact package with a pixie’s voice

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the human condition.” — Gloria Maxwell, Library Journal “Sedaris catalogs his foibles in a way that, while wildly funny, is also moving.” — Henry Alford, LA Weekly “David Sedaris is seriously funny. In Me Talk Pretty One Day he again accomplishes the cliché: He makes you laugh and he makes you cry. Sometimes both

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pretty, but he writes gorgeous.” — Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune “A writer who is capable of being not only funny, but touching, even tender, too.… David Sedaris is part Walter Mitty, part Garry Shandling, part Andy Rooney, with a little bit of Oscar Wilde thrown in for good measure; a campy commentator

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those around him, but he does it with affectionate curiosity and not a jot of shame about his own mischievous weirdness.” — Greg Villepique, Salon.com “David Sedaris has gone to the well of pain and come back repeatedly with heart-tugging tales that would have readers in tears if they weren’t

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.” — Chris Watson, Santa Cruz Sentinel “It’s all hilarious.… Listen to me: you have got to read David Sedaris. He just might be the funniest writer in North America.” — Vue (Edmonton, Canada) ALSO BY David Sedaris Barrel Fever Naked Holidays on Ice For my father, Lou One Go Carolina ANYONE WHO WATCHES EVEN THE

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, where it would move from the closet to the bathroom cabinet, joining the ranks of the spoiled to wait for the coming famine. ALSO BY DAVID SEDARIS Barrel Fever “Shrewd, wickedly funny.… These hilarious, lively, and breathtakingly irreverent stories… move way too fast to be summarized or described. They made me laugh

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

by David Sedaris · 29 May 2017 · 496pp · 137,645 words

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1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 About the Author Books by David Sedaris Discover More For Dawn “Friendship Flower” Erickson Author’s Note Occasionally in this book I have changed people’s names or slightly altered their physical

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: Yes, you know me. Me: From where? Woman: Oh, come on, you slept here last night. Me: You must have the wrong David. This is David Sedaris. Woman: I know. You slept here last night and left your jockstrap. Me: I don’t even own a jockstrap. Woman: You sound like some

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$450 and said he was just going to call me the other day because Gail, his wife, is always saying, “We need to pay that David Sedaris.” I actually don’t hold anything against him. I miss Walt and Gail. Walt said that last week she got a profit-sharing check for

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around as well. It was romantic. March 15, 1991 New York The Village Voice came out with me in the Choices section. “North Carolina transplant David Sedaris reads his wry, hilarious stories and diaries, withering social comedy leavened by an emphatic eye for the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior.” I’ll never

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going to play?” “Game? Listen—” I said. “Rich is having his roommate cover for him, is that it?” “There is no roommate. Listen, this is David Sedaris and Hugh Hamrick—” “Rich? Is that you, you shithead?” “There is no Rich,” I repeated. “You have the wrong number.” “You think you can fuck

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.” Then she said she’d call back in a few minutes and hung up. Several hours later a man called and asked if I was David Sedaris. “Me and a bunch of friends bought you a present and want to come over and give it to you.” I said it wasn’t

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a guy named Stogie came to the door. After counting my money, he looked at the papers on my table and said, “Hey, are you David Sedaris? My wife really likes you.” He asked if he could have my autograph and I was so flattered. I mean, here he was, a big

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States I could call my book Gone with the Wind if I felt like it, but not here. Thus we’re changing the title to David Sedaris’s Nackt. So there. October 8, 1999 Regensburg The movie Groundhog Day was released in Germany with the title Eternally Weeps the Groundhog. That is

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spend the afternoon looking at churches. She’ll do the same on Tuesday and wind up giving Hugh a check for $50. About the Author David Sedaris is the author of the books Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in

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Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England. davidsedarisbooks.com @davidsedaris davidsedaris Books by David Sedaris Theft by Finding Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk When You Are Engulfed in Flames Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Calypso

by David Sedaris · 28 May 2018 · 201pp · 62,452 words

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’m Still Standing The Spirit World And While You’re Up There, Check On My Prostate The Comey Memo About the Author Books by David Sedaris Discover More by David Sedaris For Joan Lacey Company Man Though there’s an industry built on telling you otherwise, there are few real joys to middle age

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trash can before boarding my flight to Washington. It wasn’t where they belonged, necessarily. It was just where they ended up. About the Author David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are

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Finding. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England. davidsedarisbooks.com facebook.com/davidsedaris Books by David Sedaris Theft by Finding Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk When You Are Engulfed in Flames Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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Me Talk Pretty One Day Holidays on Ice Naked Barrel Fever Want more David Sedaris? Tap here to find your new favorite book. Get sneak peeks, book recommendations, and news about your favorite authors.

Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

by Christian Lander · 5 Aug 2008 · 287pp · 9,386 words

Awareness 19 International Travel 20 Being an Expert on Your Culture 21 Writer’s Workshops 22 Having Two Last Names 23 Microbreweries 24 Wine 25 David Sedaris 26 Manhattan (and Now Brooklyn, Too!) 27 Marathons 28 Not Having a TV 29 ’80s Night 30 Wrigley Field 31 Snowboarding 32 Veganism/Vegetarianism 33

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fashion): white Zinfandel, wine in a box, rosé, fortified wine, Arbor Mist, Chinese cooking wine. 25 David Sedaris For many of you, this item will be confusing, as you will be wondering who exactly this David Sedaris is. He is a humorist who writes for The New Yorker and has several books, including Barrel

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punch lines, but they feel the need to hear the author actually say them. White people universally love David Sedaris, so if they ever ask you, “Who are your favorite authors?” you should always reply, “David Sedaris.” They will instantly launch into a story about how much they love his work, and the conversation

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, Dave Eggers, or Shakespeare. White people are very divided on these authors and might actually ask you questions about why you like them. Stick with David Sedaris and you can’t lose! If they do press you, just say, “I read a lot, and I never laugh out loud when I read

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Awareness 19 International Travel 20 Being an Expert on Your Culture 21 Writer’s Workshops 22 Having Two Last Names 23 Microbreweries 24 Wine 25 David Sedaris 26 Manhattan (and Now Brooklyn, Too!) 27 Marathons 28 Not Having a TV 29 ’80s Night 30 Wrigley Field 31 Snowboarding 32 Veganism/Vegetarianism 33

My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face

by Michael Ian Black · 14 Jul 2008 · 144pp · 47,632 words

Open a Scented Candle Shoppe Maximus Beer Why I’ve Decided to Go Blonde A Series of Letters to a Squirrel Join Our Club! Hey, David Sedaris—Why Don’t You Just Go Ahead and Suck It? Erotic Fiction: The Elevator A College Application Essay to Harvard That Might Have Been Written

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I am temporarily residing, or at my place of employment (the address of which I will give when I have a place of employment). Hey, David Sedaris—Why Don’t You Just Go Ahead and Suck It? FIRST of all, let me start by saying that I am a

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David Sedaris fan. Everybody is a David Sedaris fan, which is part of the reason I hate him so much. People who are as universally beloved as David Sedaris are, in my opinion, highly suspect. After all, how can so many people

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love you if you are not, on some level, a total shithead? I would feel much better about David Sedaris if he occasionally threw a telephone at somebody. That’s the kind of behavior I have grown accustomed to from the celebrated, and it would

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greatly relieve me to know that David Sedaris is capable of such lawlessness. A perfect target: fellow memoirist and Nazi hunter Elie Wiesel. How incredible would that be? The winner of the Thurber

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provide both of them reams of material for future memoirs. In the business world, we call that “win-win.” But no. Instead, we can expect David Sedaris to continue puttering through his quiet life, trolling Parisian cafés and bookstores, jotting down the occasional bon mot for his adoring American public. All of

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it so idyllic, so comfortably bohemian. So fucking perfect. Which is why I say: Hey, David Sedaris—why don’t you just go ahead and suck it? Geniuses are the worst. If you are at all like me, you believe that geniuses

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should. Perhaps you think my antipathy is based on nothing more than good old-fashioned jealousy. You would be right to think this. After all, David Sedaris is living the kind of sophisticated, glittering life I always envisioned for myself, minus the homosexuality. So how come good fortune fell his way, and

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too worked as a housecleaner (not true) and a Macy’s elf (also not true). So, given all these amazing similarities, how is it that David Sedaris is winning various literary honors and I am doing commercials for Sierra Mist? Which is why I say again: Hey

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go ahead and suck it? It’s important to understand that when you read the words “David Sedaris” and “suck it,” that they are not actually directed at David Sedaris the person, but more at the idea of David Sedaris—the idea of a diminutive comedic memoirist out there selling millions of books and living in

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Paris with his boyfriend, Hugh. Now, perhaps the idea of David Sedaris coincides pretty closely with the actual David Sedaris, but only because he’s leading a very specific kind of life that I feel is designed to make people think worse

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of me. Is this narcissistic? On his part, yes. Lest you think I only feel this way about David Sedaris, I don’t. Wes Anderson, you can go ahead and suck it, too. And so can you, Jonathan Safran Foer. I’d love to go

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in one of their books or movies, only it would be painted in much more vivid colors than what actually took place.) I hope that David Sedaris is, on some level, a total shithead. Otherwise, I would have a hard time claiming him for humanity. Because in the end, aren’t we

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, even the geniuses among us? I like to think so. But just in case he isn’t, let me say for the final time: Hey, David Sedaris—why don’t you just go ahead and suck it? Erotic Fiction: The Elevator From time to time, I like to dabble in erotic fiction

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft

by Mike Sacks · 8 Jul 2009 · 588pp · 193,087 words

New Yorker MITCH HURWITZ (Arrested Development) Quick and Painless Advice for the Aspiring Humor Writer, Part Five: Acquiring an Agent or Manager for Your Script DAVID SEDARIS (Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day) GEORGE MEYER (Army Man, The Simpsons) AL JAFFEE (Mad's Fold-In, “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”) ALLISON SILVERMAN

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that is interested in working with you — no matter what his or her title. All that matters is that he or she believes in you. David Sedaris David Sedaris describes his suburban upbringing in Raleigh, North Carolina, as something akin to a white-trash gumbo, with a few Greeks thrown in for extra spice

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he fabricated or exaggerated many details in his stories — but he remains as popular as ever. The only person who may not buy into the David-Sedaris-as-comedy-superstar hype is Sedaris himself. The author, who now lives in England and France with his partner Hugh Hamrick had to be talked

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story was then reprinted in a textbook. In the back of the book there was a study guide. One of the entries read, “Explain why David Sedaris's mother was a bad mother.” Another read: “Have you had any experience with an alcoholic parent?” I thought, Wait a minute, I never said

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he diverts all of the attention — to himself.” You're one of only two humor writers I'm interviewing from the South — the other is David Sedaris. My southern friends and teachers aren't going to be too happy. I grew up in Gainesville, Florida, which is a university town. But, yes

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O.C.D. as a kid. I would have recurring thoughts that were mostly uncomfortable to think about. That's another similarity between you and David Sedaris — and perhaps most of the writers I've interviewed for this book. O.C.D. is a very common theme. Starting at around the age

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alarm clock eight times before falling asleep. Is O.C.D. a condition you've noticed with many other humor writers? When I spoke with David Sedaris, he mentioned how badly he suffered, and still suffers, from the condition. I don't know that I'd call it “common” among comedy writers

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magazine publication, test-market the work among friends to get an accurate read on whether it is — in fact — funny. Do not compare yourself to David Sedaris. Every book editor has heard that so many times that it's seen — at best — as white noise. If you write hysterical, idiosyncratic essays, we

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darkness as found in his stories for children. What writers do you find funny? I'm trying to think of someone to say other than David Sedaris — everyone must be invoking his name, but I do like him. What do you like about his writing? He seems to have a mastery — in

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays; Naked; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim; and When You Are Engulfed in Flames — David Sedaris Et Tu, Babe — Mark Leyner Getting Even; Without Feathers; Side Effects — Woody Allen Lolita; Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov Stern; The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce

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Your Humor Piece Publish MITCH HURWITZ (Arrested Development) Quick and Painless Advice for the Aspiring Humor Writer, Part Five: Acquiring an Agent or Manager fo DAVID SEDARIS (Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day) GEORGE MEYER (Army Man, The Simpsons) AL JAFFEE (Mad's Fold-In, “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”) ALLISON SILVERMAN

Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)

by Michael Ian Black · 5 Jan 2016 · 171pp · 57,379 words

the Amazon humor charts. To my surprise, the book seemed to be selling pretty well, rising all the way to number three, behind one of David Sedaris’s perpetual bestsellers and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, by Tucker Max. Considering I hadn’t expected anybody to buy the book, the

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authors, figuring I could maybe generate some attention, and, thus, book sales. My first target was the guy immediately ahead of me on the charts, David Sedaris. I don’t know David, and certainly had nothing against him, but I figured if he had a sense of humor, he might play along

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it. I decided to create a contest called “The First-Ever Turn David Sedaris into a Supervillain” competition, in which readers were invited to send in ideas for a David Sedaris supervillain. The winning entry was “Frenchy McStink,” a Photoshopped image of David Sedaris’s head grafted onto a Pepe LePew–looking cartoon skunk. The description

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. That kind of talk has no place between authors of our caliber, and I deeply regret my actions. On the other hand, if anybody knows David Sedaris, please tell him I will kick his Francophile ass from here to kingdom come. That little fucker has it coming. Chapter Seventeen Dog and pony

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

by Adrian Hon · 14 Sep 2022 · 371pp · 107,141 words

boost engagement. Sending a notification that a friend pulled ahead in your weekly activity competition is a foolproof method to keep people using your device. David Sedaris, the American humorist, recounts: “I destroy everyone I’m a Fitbit friend of.… Like, I might be walking 130 miles a week, and they’re

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or practicing the guitar so that we can one day proceed more confidently on our own. But what if the training wheels never come off? David Sedaris, the Fitbit destroyer-of-friends, wrote about what happened when his Fitbit died: I was devastated when I tapped the broadest part of it and

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surviving copies—not because their owners didn’t care for them, but because “they were literally consumed by use,” as Rudy puts it. Judging by David Sedaris’s obsession with his Fitbit step count, it’s not hard to see modern parallels. When indulgences were awarded in return for payment, the work

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/david-sedaris-nyc-quarantine-life-coronavirus.html. 36. “Apple Watch Series 4—How to Start an Activity Competition—Apple,” Apple Australia, YouTube, video, 00:25, October 20,

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, Book II, trans. W. D. Ross, Internet Classics Archive, Web Atomics, accessed November 26, 2021, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.2.ii.html. 76. David Sedaris, “Stepping Out,” New Yorker, June 23, 2014, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/stepping-out-3. 77. Alexander Wells, “Body Shame: Historian Jürgen Martschukat