If you attend a David Sedaris reading, you’re helping him edit

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May 27, 2026

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"The audience is my first editor," David Sedaris says. His new book is <em>The Land and Its People.</em>

Sedaris says the best part of reading his work to an audience is earning the laughs — or the groans. “A collective groan is fine with me,” he says. His new book is The Land and Its People.

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