“”There is nothing good to be older””
“David Sedaris humorous texts have been streaks of melancholy: The older you get, the more shit happens.”
“This is a kulturartikel which is a part of Aftonbladet’s opinionsjournalistik.”
“David Sedaris has always written funny about what is going on in his own life, and now the current Calypso is no exception.”
“But now, after 60, becomes the shadows in our lives anymore.”
“– There is nothing good to be older. The only thing that had been worse would have been if I was poor, ” he says.”
“David Sedaris, 62, is known for his personal essays with roots in his own life. The big grekamerikanska the family, homosexuality, drugs, obsessive-compulsive disorder, failed career choices – it may sound neither generational or fun but he has a rare ability to find something is often a little ridiculous that everyone can recognize themselves in.”
“so Far, there have been eleven books and in the U.S. homeland, he is also a known radioröst. Just when we had finished this interview in a hotel lobby, two young americans up and said, ”Oh my god, I thought I recognized the voice. Certainly you are David Sedaris?”.”
“In the Calypso he writes about holidays in the new beach house with dad and siblings, life with boyfriend Hugh, meetings with people during the book tours and the clash of cultures in other countries. The humor is as sharp as usual, but there is also a clear streak of melancholy.”
“– It wasn’t supposed to be so, but I write about my life and the older you get, the more shit happens. People in your neighborhood dies, you begins to crumble together …, ” he says.”
” Last week, for example, brought a doctor up a tiny little camera in my penis to take pictures of my bladder. I had not written about ten years ago because such a thing is not happened to me then.”
“not To write if there is no alternative, he writes about everything. His family has become accustomed to and allowed to read before it goes to press. Sometimes they ask him to delete something and then he does it. Like when one of his sisters asked him not to mention where she worked.”
“– She thought it was embarrassing that she worked there and of course respected, I take it, even if I did not understand. I mean, she had no problem with that I wrote about the time she shat himself in the hand, but this … ”
“Even his 95-year-old dad, as he always had a strained relationship with, taking the place in the book. He never really understood what the son is doing and who is counting the empty chairs when David Sedaris keeps his well-attended lectures. But now a more conciliatory tone.”
” It’s okay that your parents don’t know exactly what to do. He was an engineer and end up in college, I thought he was the train driver. It evens itself out.”
“another event that characterizes Calypso is his youngest sister Tiffany’s suicide in 2013. Also it was a matter of course to write about though he screened a part.”
“– There were details which had given the readers a better picture of her but I did not because I don’t think she had wanted to. In addition, the felt is not a father to them, and it had cracked him if he had been told.”
“it Was not the last time”
“When Tiffany Sedaris died, she had long been mentally ill, she did not want to medicate, and her illness made the relationship with the family difficult. One of the essays is about the last time David Sedaris saw his sister – she had come to one of his readings, but he saw to it that the guards don’t let her. ”I can’t be bothered now, I’ll talk with her then”, he thought. But it was never something then.”
” I don’t think anything I wrote struck so of my readers. The letters I get … ’I realise that when others judge you but I do understand – my dotteru002Fsysteru002Fbror …” I feel such a connectedness with these people.”
“David Sedaris is very successful and rich. He and Hugh Hamrick lives in the mainly in the uk but owns a further twelve dwellings, the latest in a condo they just bought in New York.”
“Inducted in fine company.”
“Recently he was elected to the American academy of arts and letters, a hederssällskap where the 250 visual artists, composers and writers sit. It is a like a in that case, someone must die for another to be able to get the place.”
“– Philp Roth died, and then arose a place for David Sedaris!”
” I wish I didn’t care about things like this but I really had never imagined this. It means a huge amount.”
“But no, he has not told dad. “
” I know exactly what he would say. He would tell me about a girl in his church, who himself published a book about his Greek family. ’See to her’, and if I would reply, ’it is not possible, it doesn’t work’, he would say: ’nonsense, they took you in’.”
“the Family: the Boyfriend Hugh Hamrick. Father Lou, and brothers, sisters Lisa, Gretchen, Amy and Paul. Another sister, Tiffany, who died in 2013. Amy Sedaris is a comedian and actor, last seen in, among other things, ”Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”.”
“Lives: mainly in West Sussex in England but also has homes in France, New York and in North Carolina, where he also grew up.”
“the Background: After having failed to become a painter, he had a small breakthrough when he read aloud from their diaries, first on stage and then in radio, and was regularly featured in the ”This american life”. In 1994 came his first essay, ”Barrel fever”. His other, ”Naked” (1997) is also available in Swedish. Have sktivit 11 books, published over 40 essays in The New Yorker and is involved in the day regularly in the BBC and in The Guardian.”
“Current: ”Calypso” (Mondial publishers).”
“Other: Is a frequent skräpplockare when he is out walking in the neighborhood – so diligent that he has received a garbage truck named after him.”
