With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, bestselling author David Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness.
Known for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of 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, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year.
His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” The first volume of his diaries, Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) was a New York Times best-selling book.
His book, The Best of Me, is a collection of 42 previously published stories and essays, about which novelist Andrew Sean Greer wrote in the New York Times: “You must read ‘The Best of Me’. It will be a new experience, knowing that enough time has passed to find humor in the hardest parts of life. More than ever—we’re allowed to laugh.”
The second volume of his diaries, A Carnival of Snackery, Diaries (2003-2020), was also a New York Times bestseller and the audiobook was selected as part of Apple’s Best Audiobooks of the Year for 2021. His new book, Happy-Go-Lucky, debuted at number one on the New York Times best-seller list.
Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service.
Sedaris has also been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His audio recordings include “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure” and “David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.” A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was released after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (2013).
Since 2011, he can be heard annually on a series of live recordings on BBC Radio 4 entitled “Meet David Sedaris.” In 2019 David Sedaris became a regular contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and his Masterclass, David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor, was released.
There are more than 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.
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In the 2023 French and Francophone Film Festival, characters delve deeply into the lives of others and question the limits of their ability to imagine or enter those worlds.
Julie Cassiday,Professor of Russian at Williams, will speak on Russian Style, or What Twerking Air Cadets and ‘Gay’ Propaganda Tell Us About Putin’s War in Ukraine.
Chocolate peanut butter cookies, fresh flowers, jams and pickles and cheeses ... the North Adams Farmers Market returns with more than a dozen farmers and makers.
Led by artist/educator Beth Klingher, students will create an outdoor rock mosaic to brighten their garden with cut glass, ceramic and other materials.
Every first Sunday of the month, Dottie's hosts morning soulful jazz and blues. Pete Toigo performs on bass and Dave Bartley on piano and vocals as Dottie’s serves Domingo Brunch.
Artist Marc Swanson will talk with writer Maggie Nelson and artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris about their works on mourning and climate change.
Award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz, critic and best-selling author, will give a talk on Prayer Flags and Easy A's: Learning in the Social Justice College.
The Bear and Bee bookshop invites LGBTQ+ folk an informal evening of conversation and quiet activities in a warm community place, every second Wednesday of the month.
Internationally acclaimed cellist Adrian Daurov, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia and now living in New York City, will work with Williams cello students.
Thulani Chauke, a principal dancer in William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load will, perform work in progress at Mass MoCA, in partnership with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Mass MoCA opens for a night at the museum on the second Thursday of each month this spring, to explore the exhibitions in Buildings 4 and 5 with live performances.
Thulani Chauke, a principal dancer in William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load will, perform work in progress at Mass MoCA, in partnership with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
North Adams Pride announces that their first annual Northern Lights Ball for members of the regional LGBTQ+ community and allies to shake off the winter blues.
Welcome the maple sugaring season with a visit to the sap house, tap a tree and sample the syrup with pancakes, sugar-on-snow and a maple taste-off ...
Q-MoB, a new affinity group, invites queer men in the greater Berkshire region to gather for an informal dinner bring a favorite food and beverage to share.
Dewey Hall and Michael Lesko are partnering to revive a monthly open-mic-meets-variety show with an open creative soirée and a talented headlining act.
Wong Kar Wai’s raw, lush portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing as a couple traveling through Argentina.
Susan Weidman Schneider, Editor in Chief of Lilith magazine, and Yona Zeldis McDonough, Lilith's Fiction Editor, give a virtual talk on their groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection.
Shakespeare & Company will stage a free, community presentation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare with the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare.
American rock band The Young Dubliners will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with their fusion of Irish traditional music and rock, with guest artists Kilashandra.
Learn vegetable and flower seed-starting and plant-growing techniques that result in vigorous plants from organic grower Maureen Sullivan of Left Field Farm in Middlefield.
Shakespeare & Company will take a behind-the-scenes look at how Shakespeare explores jealousy in plays including Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter’s Tale.
Q-MoB invites queer men in the greater Berkshire region (18 or older) to gather for drinks, conversation, small bites, and community in this cozy speakeasy-style lounge.
Mass MoCA's artists-in-residence at The Studios — where you may meet a fiber artist, an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow and game designer, a fourth-generation asian American artist exploring collective memory, generational narratives, histories and space, a visual album maker from San Francisco, an Afrofuturist poetry slam champion, […]
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Berkshire Theatre Group presents Song and Dance! with performances by Gina Coleman, Olga Dunn Dance Co., Wanda Houston, Mary Ann Palermo and The All-Star Women’s Band.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Images Cinema presents Nightmare on Spring Street — a new late-night genre series — with three 21st century Korean films that offer fresh takes on zombies, vampires, and monster movies.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Q-Mob's Dining Club creates community by looking for some of the best food at the best and most accessible and diverse restaurants in the region — tonight at at House of Seasoning.
Improv and comedy legend Colin Mochrie and master hypnotist Asad Mecci present a new kind of comedy show — hypnosis and lmprov, two art forms that have mystified and entertained fans, skeptics and everyone in between for decades worldwide, come together as two masters of their crafts unite for Improv […]
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Los Angeles artist Sydney Acosta will talk about her work, centered in what defies depiction and the history of representation in painting and photography.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Dewey Hall will present a TapRoot Square Dance with live music by the Mapletones, Max Rainwater on fiddle and Nicole Ball on guitar, and square dance caller SargentSeedoo.
Emerging from New Haven in 2019, Love n’ Co. hopes to push their fans and audience members to shoot for the moon — to be the best version of themselves.
In The Day I Became a Woman, director Marzieh Meshkini shows different experiences of womanhood in post-revolutionary Iran through a series of three short films.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Comedian Cindy Foster has been making people laugh across the world, performing her live stand-up show and video shorts on social media with 65 million views.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Chocolate peanut butter cookies, fresh flowers, jams and pickles and cheeses ... the North Adams Farmers Market returns with more than a dozen farmers and makers.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
Amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century under a car park in Leicester — the lost burial site of King Richard III, lost for more than 500 years.
