bergenPAC to Welcome David Sedaris, 10/10

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents An Evening With David Sedaris, Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 8PM. Purchase tickets for a night of sardonic wit at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.

Celebrating the June 3, 2014 paperback release of his latest title, #1 New York Times Bestseller, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, author David Sedaris comes to Engelwood for an evening of engaging recollections and featuring all-new readings. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

David Sedaris is the author of several bestselling books. There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. Sedaris's pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in "The Best American Essays." He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name "The Talent Family" and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. David Sedaris's original radio pieces can often be heard on the public radio show This American Life. David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album.

Tweaking the familiar until it warps, David Sedaris mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Including his recent releases, the New York Times' bestselling books When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, David Sedaris' wickedly witty observations of the ordinary-bizarre are always sure to deliver insights and laughs. One of six children in a second-generation Greek family, he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1977, he dropped out of Kent State University to hitchhike around the country. Aside from working as an elf, Sedaris has worked a number of charmingly quirky jobs such as a house painter, an apple picker, an aide in a mental hospital, a creative writing teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, and an apartment cleaner.

Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy's elf, reading his Santaland Diaries on National Public Radio's Morning Edition in 1992. His style has made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators. In 2001, he was named Humorist of the Year by Time magazine and received the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

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