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It’s a cliche to say that writers don’t always look too impressive - but even by the standards of his profession, the little man waiting in the restaurant foyer is a curious spectacle. He is short and slight, and wearing a truly terrible sports jacket - a check design made out of all the colours of an Easter basket, with shoulders that are somehow the opposite of padded, and seem deliberately to dip. He says hello in a shy, singsong voice that straddles three notes in two syllables - “He-lo-o” - and he walks like a child pretending to be an old man, or possibly the other way around, with dainty little steps. There is no charisma in his physical presence, and no heads swivel as we sit at our table - but I am more star struck than I think I have ever been in my life. I am having lunch with David Sedaris.
Decca Aitkenhead meets writer David Sedaris.
Lucky lady. If you haven’t read any Sedaris, do so very, very soon.
Decca Aitkenhead meets writer David Sedaris.
Lucky lady. If you haven’t read any Sedaris, do so very, very soon.
