In-person Community Arts & Culture

An Evening with David Sedaris

Monday, May 5, 2025
6:00pm to 8:00pm

Edmonton Convention Centre
Selected as a Taproot pick
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Organized by: Edmonton Public Library
May
5

Join bestselling author and humorist, David Sedaris for an evening filled with storytelling, observations, unpublished tales, audience Q&As and book signings.

David Sedaris is one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today's most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso. His book The Best of Me collects 42 previously published stories and essays. Sedaris also wrote Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. His most recent is a short graphic novel for children with illustrations by Ian Falconer titled Pretty Ugly (TOON Books).


Tickets are available Monday, March 17 for $20 and $30 each


Edmonton Convention Centre

9797 Jasper Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T5J 1N9


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