This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to the winners, Rich and Trevor Kelley.
Author, humorist, NPR contributor, and bad mammer-jammer David Sedaris is coming back to town for a reading at Walton Arts Center on April 12.
Sedaris is the author of several best-selling collections of essays and stories, including Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
He has been a frequent contributor to PRI/Chicago Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show This American Life, and has published essays in The New Yorker, Esquire, and others.
Sedaris’ show at the Walton Arts Center will feature a 60-minute reading his work, followed by a 20-minute question and answer session.
Oh, and we’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away. Win ‘em.
How to enter
Leave a comment with the title of your favorite work by Sedaris, and you’re entered.
What you’ll win
Two randomly selected winners will receive two (2) tickets to see An Evening With David Sedaris, scheduled for 7 p.m Tuesday, April 12 at Walton Arts Center.
A few rules (read ‘em carefully):
- You may enter this specific contest once.
- This contest is open to anyone anywhere except Fayetteville Flyer writers, Walton Arts Center employees, and their immediate family members.
- Contest is open until 12:00 p.m. CST on Friday, March 18
Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address when filling out the comment form since that’s how we’ll contact you if you’ve won. Once we notify the winners, you’ll have 24 hours to respond via email to claim your prize. - You’ll have to provide us with your first and last name (if you win) and then be prepared to show a valid photo ID when picking up your tickets.
Thanks to the Walton Arts Center for sponsoring this contest. For more information about this performance or to purchase tickets, visit waltonartscenter.org.


Everything!
me talk pretty one day
I love his Christmas elf essays!
me talk pretty one day as well!
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Nothing beats Holidays on Ice.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Barrel Fever … still one of my faves!
Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Naked” gotta love it!
“You Can’t Kill The Rooster” is my favorite of his stories. (Amy Sedaris’ portrayal of Rooster on the AudioBook is classic, too!)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
The “Six to Eight Black Men” story still gets me every time. Even upon recalling the highlights.
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim!
Barrel Fever
Holidays on Ice. Too hilarious to not be true!
Me Talk Pretty One Day
dress yer family in corduroy and denim
Me Talk Pretty One Day!!!!!
Just finished When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Fracking. Hilarious.
It’s a tie between Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim!
I agree with so many of the above: When you are Engulfed in Flames and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. I’d LOVE to win! He’s my absolute fave satirist ;)
When you are Engulfed in Flames!
Holidays on Ice!
Holidays on Ice & Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked
He is one of my favorite authors and personalities. It is hard to choose just one!
The “Santaland Diaries” from Holidays on Ice is my fave.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
I think I like Me Talk Pretty One Day the best, but it’s so hard to pick one!
Dress your family in corduroy and denim
I love all of David’s work on This American Life (on public radio)
My first love was Naked
Probably Me Talk Pretty One Day because it was the first book of his that I read and made me fall in love with his writing. Now it’s time for me to fall in love with his live speaking. Make it happen, Flyer.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is the only one I’ve read so far, so I guess it’s my favorite
DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM
jesus shaves
I am actually reading When You are Engulfed in Flames right now! I’m also working through Amy Sedaris’ new craft book “Simple Times:Crafts for Poor People”. Hilarious, the both of ‘em.
me talk pretty one day
I love Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim! Thanks for the giveaway!
when you are engulfed in flames, naked, me talk pretty one day, dress your family in courderoy and denim, holidays on ice. read them all, love them all. can’t choose a fave…. hope this still enters me to win. considered buying tix, but just couldn’t swing even the cheap seats.
Me Talk Petty One Day
Me talk pretty one day
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Me Talk Pretty One Day!
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day!
I love so many of his stories. One of my favorite ones is the one about his brother the “Rooster” and his “F”- it bucket filled with candy. I think it was in “Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim”.
Corduroy and Denim
Naked!
The story about the family dog.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Holidays On Ice
Naked! It’s the first Sedaris book I read. I’ve read all his others too and they are great but Naked has a special place in my heart as I took it on my honeymoon.
“Go Carolina” in Me Talk Pretty One Day. It’s a classic.
me talk pretty one day. for real!!!
“Six to Eight Black Men”
so hard to pick one, but i’ll go with “the rooster”
Holidays on Ice
“the understudy”
This story is for all those children who have ever asked their parents where on earth they found the babysitter.
me talk pretty one day
Jesus Shaves in Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Santaland Diaries
When you are Engulfed in Flames
i also think You Can’t Kill the Rooster is his best story.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
When you’re engulfed in flames.
Hands down, “Six to Eight Black Men” (http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1202-DEC_SEDARIS).
Regarding the Christmas story in Holland…
‘A Dutch parent has a decidedly hairier story to relate, telling his children, “Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before you go to bed. The former bishop from Turkey will be coming along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you in a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don’t know for sure, but we want you to be prepared.”‘
Rooster at the Hitchin’ Post
Nothing gets me in the holiday spirit like Six to Eight Black Men.
Me Talk Pretty One Day is fantastic!
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
dress your family in corduroy and denim
dress your family in corduroy and denim
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Haven’t read them all…but Naked so far.
Me talk pretty one day
“Old Faithful”
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/11/29/041129fa_fact1
Actually, the first time I heard it was at the Walton Arts Center. A few audience members left – I guess finding it too risqué. But it’s just a story of relationships, love, fidelity, growing old, and what disgusting thing you’ll do for your partner just to ease their pain.
Any and every one of his audiobooks.
And any in particular where he sings like Billie Holliday, such as “Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities” from Me Talk Pretty One Day.
christmas stuff
it sounds lazy, but the audio books are totally worth it for long road trips and hearing David’s delivery. Me Talk Pretty One Day is probably my fave.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Any of his essays on This American Life.
Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames are my favorites by far.
Me Talk Pretty One Day! The first book I read by him and the first that made me fall in love with his work!
Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Holidays on ice
Barrel Fever
Me talk pretty one day..
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Barrel Fever
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Only a family like Sedars’ could produce such a perverted mind.