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2024 Lecture: An Evening with David Sedaris
Lectures & Talks

LECTURE: An Evening with David Sedaris

Monday, November 11, 2024 - 7:30 PM

David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso.

Sedaris has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. There are over 16 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.

AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS HAPPILY SPONSORED BY JANE P. WATKINS

 

Ticket Prices

(includes all taxes and convenience fees)

Premium Seats: $95.80 member / $106.60 nonmember
Standard Seats: $68.80 member / $79.60 nonmember
Balcony Seats: $51.60 member / $62.40 nonmember

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