No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World - Fareed Zakaria Madhouse at the End of the Earth - Julian Sancton The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit - John Petrocelli The Greatest Beer Run Ever - John 'Chick' Donohue and J.T. Travels with George - Nathaniel Philbrick It's Better to be Feared - Seth Wickersham The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. (From Little Brown and Company)Īmerican writer and comedian David Sedaris is the bestselling author of several books including Calypso, Theft by Finding, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed.

He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things.

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