Me Talk Pretty One Day

The story “Follow This,” from David Sedaris’s book “Dress Your Family in Velvet and Cotton,” was first published in the magazine Esquire. In his works, David Sedaris lifts the veil from the boredom of everyday life, exposing the absurd lurking inside it. His world is full of strange desires and hidden motives—where forgiveness happens on its own, and cold rationality can turn out to be the highest form of love. Reading his books, you understand that before you is one of the smartest and most original writers of our time at the peak of his craft.