Notes from a reading

I've seen David Sedaris read a couple of times now, most recently the other night.  Sedaris is the author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Me Talk Pretty One Day, among other books.  Despite the fact that he describes himself in his early essays as a walking mass of tics and compulsions ("A Plague of Tics," Naked), at times drug-dependent ("Twelve Moments in the Life of an Artist," Me Talk Pretty One Day), and makes fun of his initial attempts to lead a writing workshop ("The Learning C...