After 25 years and nine essay collections, after publishing 500 pages of his own diary, the most shocking thing David Sedaris can do is reveal that he's been holding things back.
In the last few pages of his new essay collection, “Calypso,” he deploys a killer anecdote that most attention-cravers would use up on a first date. In 1968, Sedaris's parents had just moved to Raleigh, N.C., and were eating at an oyster bar when the news came that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed. Everyone in the restaurant — except the Sedarises — burst into applause. “Our family hadn't been in the South very long, and that was a real eye-opener.”
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