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Said the Boston Globe "It's not just that Sedaris's crisp prose is humorous. What makes his work a consistent joy to read is his deliciously skewed vision of the world, and his deadpan delivery".

Here is a favorite excerpt to show this. He opens the paragraph explaining how he nonchalantly asks taxi drivers, when entering a new city, census figures. He does so rather than reading guidebooks because it's really a segway into his real question, local gun laws. He goes on and on about them and finishes with: " I ask about guns not because I want one of my own but because the answers vary so widely from state to state. In a country that's become increasingly homogeneous, I'm reassured by these last charming touches of regionalism."