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• [1] Janny from jersey city June 02, 2009 - 11:13AM

  When my friend lived in Chicago in the 80s, she was always talking about her neighbors' friend 'David', and how funny he was. Lo and behold, it was Mr. Sedaris. His new book is one of his best, truly LOL funny. My day was made, finding out he was going to be on the show today.

  
  
• [2] Janny from jersey city June 02, 2009 - 12:10PM

  I'll take the Atlantic subscription! I'm a sustaining member so i never 'get in' on the gifts!

  
  
• [3] Janet from NYC June 02, 2009 - 12:12PM

  I quit two years ago and i LOVED smoking...

  TRY

  easy way to stop smoking

  read the book or listen to the cds

  
  
• [4] Joanne Goodman from NYC June 02, 2009 - 12:18PM

  David Sedaris was -- unbeknownst to him -- a great comfort to my mother, my sister and me during my mother's final hospitalization. I read NAKED out loud to my mother in the ICU and kept her, and many of the nurses, laughing. We read a little bit every day, and my mother died about 12 hours after we finished the book. (I should have read a little slower.) NAKED gave us a lot of things to connect over during my mother's last week, and I've always wanted to thank David Sedaris for that!

  
  
• [5] wetblanket from Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn June 02, 2009 - 12:25PM

  Are you still in the habit of giving people little gifts (like hotel shampoos) when they approach you at book signings?

  What can people expect to receive tonight at the Strand? :)

  
  
• [6] pc from nyc June 02, 2009 - 12:33PM

  Dissapointed I missed the beginning of this segment with David. I hope he's on to the top of the hour.

  
  
• [7] Edward Lewit from Long Island, NY June 02, 2009 - 12:39PM

  Just listening to David Sedaris and I had to add my comment about community and phoning in to make a pledge.

  Several years ago I had occasion to rent my apartment to a businessman from Switzerland who was living in the US for a year or so. When I called WNYC to make my pledge, the volunteer who took my information suddenly stopped and asked "Are you the person renting his apartment to (name)"? Surprised, I said 'Yes" and she said she worked for him and was one who wrote my rental check each month.

  NYC really is a community and I like to talk to the pledge takers. You never know.

  Ed Lewit

  
  
• [8] suzanne from Plainfield June 02, 2009 - 12:42PM

  THANKS! David for reading my favorite entry from your newest book. My sister & I say "wellllll kiiiind of" all the time to each other. Love you. Love WYNC.

  
  
• [9] Brian June 02, 2009 - 12:43PM

  his article about buying condoms for the signings with his brother cracked me up. haha.

  
  
• [10] Kamal from Jackson Heights, Queens June 02, 2009 - 12:50PM

  I hope his books are funnier than his interviews - this is getting grating...

  
  
• [11] chester June 02, 2009 - 01:39PM

  I thought it was hilarious, Kamal!

  
  
• [12] Sharon Petronaci from Montclair, NJ June 02, 2009 - 02:18PM

  I was delighted to turn on the Leonard Lopate show and hear David Sedaris' distictive voice. I was even more delighted when he spoke about buying a human skeleton for Hugh.

  When I finished high school, college wasn't a consideration so I went to work. I was hired by the Clay Adams Division of Becton-Dickinson in Parsippany, NJ to work in their anatomy department. This meant wiring human skeletons together that were then sold to medical schools and/or anyone who wanted to buy them.

  I worked with two other women, we didn't know who the bodies were, they were imported from another country. Our skeletons had moving limbs; in fact, I ran nylon threads from their limbs through the ceiling tiles to my desk as, completed, they hung from the hooks we put in their skulls in the back of our production room. The company loved to bring visitors through and I could make the skeletons move from across the room simply by opening my desk drawer.

  We had a sort of parts department which consisted of boxes of spare teeth, pelvic bones, fingers and, of course, spare ribs.

  One of the best visitor comments I ever heard was a portly gentleman who quietly considered the row of hanging completed articulated skeletons with their ghastly grins and said, "No wonder they're smiling; dead, and they're still making money."

  
  
• [13] Zak June 03, 2009 - 12:13AM

  I got a breast milk story for David Sedaris if he wants it. You can give him my e-mail.

  
  
• [14] Tony from Queens June 17, 2009 - 04:48AM

  Pull my finger, darlin'