David Sedaris's Book Recommendations

"I just remember the excitement that I felt when I got What We Talk About When We Talk About Love from the library."

"I remember I read Babbitt because it was something that the better English class read in high school."

"It was such music to me."

"I can look back through my diary and I can tell when I discovered [this author] because all of a sudden I'm writing like [her]."

"I have to be [this author's] biggest fan. Really, I would fight someone. If someone came in here and said 'I'm his biggest fan,' I would fight that person and I would win."

"I read The Easter Parade every year."

"I read Revolutionary Road every year."

"It was about a young schizophrenic woman named Sylvia Frumkin who lived in the Bronx with her family."

"I cannot remember the last time I laughed that hard at a book."

"[The author] writes about nature like nobody else."