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David Sedaris has written about his Fitbit and travel-induced constipation, a childhood speech impediment, alcoholism, and dead siblings and parents. Across a dozen short story collections plus regular contributions to the New Yorker and “This American Life,” he’s covered picking up trash on the side of the road, the particular allure of beach houses and the dramatic irony of being the only one at a party who knows that someone has left a giant turd floating in a toilet.
He’s painted the foibles of his partner, Hugh Hamrick, and family members so vividly you might mistakenly picture them as part of your own brood. And he’s done it all with one LOL-inducing throwaway line after another: “immigrant parents who considered even potholders an extravagance,” “never did it occur to me that I might be innocent.”
Now the humorist tours to Berkeley Repertory Theatre to read from unpublished essays, complete with audience Q&A sessions…