This Week In Reading: When You are Engulfed by Flames by David Sedaris You don’t need me to tell you that David Sedaris funny and charming, he’s written ten books already and been on This American Life too many times to count. In general, I find self-deprecation to be a deeply unflattering trait. What is the joke? That you have poor self esteem? I don’t get it. David Sedaris always manages to thread the needle between self-awareness and self-deprecation. He is not apologizing for being neurotic and ridiculous and exhausting, but he does apologize for the fact that other people have to deal with how neurotic and ridiculous and exhausting he is. He is a houseguest gracefully acknowledging that he is an inconvenience, and his reader is the host insisting that it was no trouble at all, he is a delight, and in fact, would he like to stay another night?
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This Week In Reading: When You are Engulfed by Flames by David Sedaris You don’t need me to tell you that David Sedaris funny and charming, he’s written ten books already and been on This American Life too many times to count. In general, I find self-deprecation to be a deeply unflattering trait. What is the joke? That you have poor self esteem? I don’t get it. David Sedaris always manages to thread the needle between self-awareness and self-deprecation. He is not apologizing for being neurotic and ridiculous and exhausting, but he does apologize for the fact that other people have to deal with how neurotic and ridiculous and exhausting he is. He is a houseguest gracefully acknowledging that he is an inconvenience, and his reader is the host insisting that it was no trouble at all, he is a delight, and in fact, would he like to stay another night?