About this Event
Tickets Required.
SIGNING LINE ONLY TICKETS: Free. Registration Required.
Signing Only Line starts at 7:45 PM.
Doors will open at 8:45 PM.
After the reading event & signing, David will remain in the store for a public book signing. THIS TICKET TYPE DOES NOT INCLUDE ADMISSION TO THE READING.
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EVENT TICKETS (Reading and Book Signing): $32.50 includes one hardcover copy of THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE and sales tax. - SOLD OUT!
Space is Limited. Doors Open 6:30 PM.
*If wheelchair seating is required please purchase your tickets then email us at [email protected].
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In The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. A ambivalent Duolingo bot becomes his unlikely confidante as he attempts to describe his family in a foreign language. Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.
Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
David Sedaris is the author of fifteen previous books, including Happy-Go-Lucky, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. In 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Jonathan Swift Prize for Satire and Humor, and the Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 35.12
