David Sedaris Quote
Three days after that, the funeral was held, and while riding from the church to the cemetery Ava looked out the widow and noticed that everyone she passed was crying. Old people, college students, even the colored men at the gas station-- the soul brothers, or whatever we're supposed to call them now.It was such an outdated term, I just had to use it myself. How did the soul brothers know your father?That's just it, she said. No one told us until after the burial that Kennedy had been shot. It happened when we were in the church, so that's what everyone was so upset about. The president, not my father.
David Sedaris
Three days after that, the funeral was held, and while riding from the church to the cemetery Ava looked out the widow and noticed that everyone she passed was crying. Old people, college students, even the colored men at the gas station-- the soul brothers, or whatever we're supposed to call them now.It was such an outdated term, I just had to use it myself. How did the soul brothers know your father?That's just it, she said. No one told us until after the burial that Kennedy had been shot. It happened when we were in the church, so that's what everyone was so upset about. The president, not my father.
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About David Sedaris
Much of Sedaris's humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London, New York, and the South Downs in England. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris.
In 2019, Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.