num_pages: 576
description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice: T heres no right way to keep a diary but if theres an entertaining way David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If its navel-gazing youre after youve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus a fight between two men on the street pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. Theres a dirty joke shared at a book signing then a dirtier one told at a dinner partylots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs. These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush and that not too long ago Donald Trump was just a harmless laughingstock at least on French TV. Time marches on and Sedaris at his desk or on planes in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing backgroundnew administrations new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book you cant by the end. At its best A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.
language: English
title: A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
publisher: Little, Brown and Company