20 Questions: David Sedaris

A couple days after I spoke with iconic essayist David Sedaris about his new book, The Land and Its People, a postcard—the first I’ve received in maybe 20 years—arrived from him in the mail. It was a stylish piece of John Derian stationary, one side of which bore an illustration of mushrooms while on the other he thanked me for the chat and provided an unsolicited recommendation for a shop in my city that he described as “not the best...but they have nice things.”