anyone who knows me knows just how wild i am about david sedaris. he is my favorite writer, and “me talk pretty one day” is my all-time favorite book. it left me laughing so hard, i was in tears. his other essay collections are just as great. i found out yesterday that he has a new book out called “when you are engulfed in flames.” i read the synopsis and was dying to buy it, but figured i’d just put it on hold at the library instead to save money. but now i read the publisher’s description listed in PINES and man, oh man, i might just have to go ahead and buy it. i can’t wait!!!

from the publisher:

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life’s most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris’s sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.