This, I recognize, is a factor of his talent both as a writer and a humorist, not a factor of his name. Then he got wildly famous and was able to publish any old essay in any old magazine. Naked is the masterpiece because the essays therein are longer and more satisfying the whole thing is memoir in its finest form of sifting through the past to let someone understand how life (or maybe just a life) gets lived. Now, of course, teens run at the chance to go live in some other city just to "have their lives taped," just for the fame it might bring, and what they actually do on the show is dull as a result. In New York, the cast members were people already living in the city (with the Alabama exception) and trying to make a living the whole "be on TV" part of it was something they dealt with in the name of free housing. If we were to compare his oeuvre to MTV's The Real World, Naked is the original New York season (despite not being Sedaris's first book). Here's my take on Sedaris, or maybe my take on Sedaris before I listened to this book: Naked is easily his best work because it's his most thorough, his most unencumbered by his own fame.
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