Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

by David Sedaris

288 pages, Paperback

Published March 6, 2014

About the author

David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Much of Sedaris's humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London, New York, and the South Downs in England. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris.
In 2019, Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

[Maximilian · Rating 5 out of 5]

My second David Sedaris book. I was in stitches when reading the chapter #2 to Go.

The poem at the end ‘Dog Days’ is brilliant.

[Phillip Fitzsimmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is great, though I'm not sure where the title comes from.

[Sienna S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a funky fella
(More like a 3.5, but will round for the taxidermy owls)

[Unu Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great light summer read. Don’t get why the title is called that still?