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Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris) Collected here are the more or less (Christmas-)holiday-themed short stories Sedaris writes. They vary widely in style – from outright fiction to (apparently?) autobiographical stories to animal fables and his strength mostly lies in the autobiographical (which he is also most famous for). Sedaris has a sharp eye and he manages to make his observations funny, but when he makes things up, they tend to get out of hand. Generally it’s an entertaining collection, though not always unproblematic. After the jump, I talk about each of the stories individually. SantaLand Diaries. David Sedaris worked as a Christmas elf at SantaLand at Macy’s in New York, a massive Christmas theme park, making sure every family can buy their photo with Santa. This entry is one of the more or less autobiographical ones and most of the time, it’s extremely entertaining. But there were a couple of moments where it just didn’t work for me. For example, when he talks about a visit from a group of “retards”, I was simply taken aback. Season’s Greetings to Our Friends and Family. Despite recent hardships, Jocelyn Dunbar is writing a Christmas newsletter for her friends and family, detailing exactly how her live was derailed. Apart from the fact that family newsletters are a weird thing for somebody who’s not USAmerican, I quite liked the format of telling a story through that letter. But the story itself didn’t really blow me away. Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol. A couple of very serious reviews of children’s nativity plays. The idea of taking kids’ school performances as seriously as a Broadway production and having the reviews written by a particularly cantankerous critic is amusing in itself. But for Sedaris it’s only the starting point. I wouldn’t mind reading Bristol reviews of actual things. They really made me grin, especially as somebody who writes reviews herself. Based Upon a True Story. A Hollywood producer makes his way to a small town and takes over the Christmas mass in search of a miracle. Again one of the actually fictional short stories (making the title slightly more ironic) and again it didn’t really work for me that well. The idea is nice, but it just never really takes off. Christmas Means Giving. An unfriendly neighborhood rivalry really gets out of hand. The story was amusing enough and had some nice, dark humor, but it was also pretty obvious and didn’t impress. Dinah, the Christmas Whore. David and his sister Lisa have to get jobs. While David explores the rich inner life he is sure Lisa doesn’t even consider having, Lisa is the one who surprises the family for Christmas. This story I knew already, having read it many years ago when I first read some Sedaris. Reading it again, I remembered that I had read it, but not much more. In any case, back to his autobiographical stuff, he is back in his element. Especially when makes fun of himself (and many teenagers like him). Jesus Shaves. David and his French class try to explain the meaning of Easter. In French. It doesn’t really work that well. The attempts at translation were simply hilarious. I’m generally a sucker for wonky translations, but Sedaris really uses them to maximal effect here. Us and Them. The Sedarises move to a new home where David develops a slight obsession with his TV-less neighbor, the Tomkeys. Despite being one of the autobiographical stories, it was also one of the weaker entries in the collection. Still amusing though, especially since we usually get these kind of stories from the haughty point of view of the TV-less. Let It Snow. David’s mother kicks the kids out into the snow for a day to get a little peace and quiet. This story is a quick read, but ultimately it’s one of those “in in one ear, out the other” kind of deals. David tries to understand how the Dutch celebrate Christmas. This hilarious summary of Dutch Christmas festivities (that in some ways are similar to Austrian Christmas and in other ways not at all) had me in stitches. Probably my favorite story in the entire collection. The Monster Mash. David interns at a medical examiner’s office, an experience that strongly shapes his outlook on live. This story really captures a teenaged obsession with death that is oh-so-deep-and-mature, but actually simply naive and scared. If you’ve ever been obsessed with death like that, you’ll probably recognize yourself. For me it was never that strong, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t recognize some things about teenaged me in that piece. The Cow and the Turkey. The barnyard animals decide to play secret santa for Christmas. The Cow definitely has a special surprise in store for the Turkey. This story was stylistically pretty different from all the other stories in the collection and I didn’t love it, although I did like the bitterdark humor that permeates the story. Summarizing: Enjoyable collection and in its hodge-podge-iness probably a good place to start with Sedaris and figure out what kind of story of his you like. Holidays on Ice. David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster Mash"); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ("Cow and Turkey"). No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called "one of the funniest writers alive" ( Economist ). Другие книги автора David Sedaris. 'The writing here is funnier, (even) sharper . . . There isn't a dull word among these pages' India Knight, Sunday Times 'Could there be a more delightful American import than the memoirist David Sedaris? Not since the peanut butter and jelly sandwich have we inherited something so sweet and comforting yet so wickedly naughty' The Times. 'So often Sedaris's phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism. His life is extraordinary in so many ways - the drug addiction, the eccentric family, the crazy jobs, the fame, the globetrotting - but one of the more unlikely achievements here is in making it all seem quite ordinary. Ultimately, his masterstroke is in acting as a bystander in his own story' Book of the Day, Guardian. 'He is the American Alan Bennett - or would be, if Bennett had a history of serious substance abuse and a higher tolerance for sick humour' Times Literary Supplement. 'He makes me laugh so much. In an era when US satire is outpacing our own he's a sharp, humane and hilarious voice that never fails to make you smile - and sometimes weep. Apparently effortless humour is difficult, and precious. He's the real thing' James Naughtie, Radio Times. 'A deadpan, darkly comical portrait of the American underbelly . . . Sedaris shares something of [Alan] Bennett's detached curiosity, and they both have a thirst for amusement' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday. 'It's like gossiping with an old friend - if that friend were a rather sexy American Alan Bennett with lots of good drug stories' The Times. 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian. 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there ' Hadley Freeman, Guardian. 'Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality . . . The brilliance of David Sedaris's writing is that his very essence, his aura, seeps through the pages of his books like an intoxicating cloud, mesmerising us so that his logic becomes ours' Alan Cumming, Scotsman. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny - it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's writing has never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. The Funniest Elf. Along with watching clips from “The Daily Show” on YouTube and eating organic vegetables lugged home in reusable canvas sacks, having a shelf full of books by David Sedaris has become a requisite part of American ​middle-aged, upper-middle-class urban life. Thousands of people buy them, according to this very news​paper’s best-seller list. So why do I suspect few have actually read them, cover to vaguely macabre Chip Kidd-designed cover? Maybe because it’s so easy just to dabble in David Sedaris. His pieces are often broadcast on “This American Life,” to which he is a regular contributor (imagine the yards of Prius upholstery ruined as his many fans snort latte out their noses, convulsed by his aperçus). Others are printed in The New Yorker, trailing a faint whiff of the exotic: Sedaris was raised in suburban North Carolina but has long lived in and worked from France, like some post-World War I expatriate daubing at a canvas. He draws enormous, worshipful crowds to his performances and has also written plays, some with his sister Amy(best known for her role as Jerri Blank on the late, lamented Comedy Central program “Strangers With Candy” and for churning out cheese balls in copious numbers from her West Village apartment). Still, it’s David’s half-dozen essay and story collections that have fixed him in the public imagination, at almost 52, as the country’s pre-eminent humorist — that starchy, unfunny word. Back in 1997, before he was quite the blockbuster draw he is now, his publisher released a ​Christmas- themed collection called “Holidays on Ice” that included Sedaris’s seminal “SantaLand Diaries,” a probing exposé of the ritual pilgrimage to visit Mr. Claus at Macy’s, based on his observations as an elf-for-hire. It was at once hilarious and profoundly depressing. There was also a spot-on spoof of those annual family bulletins distributed by mothers-in-law the land over, its excitable punctuation sugarcoating the bad news — in this case, that a baby has mysteriously expired in a washing machine (“he died long before the spin cycle”); and a caustic and unsparing review of an elementary school Nativity play (“6-year-old Shannon Burke just barely manages to pass herself off as a virgin”). Children do not as a rule fare well in the Sedaris oeuvre; perhaps that’s why breeders embrace the author so enthusiastically: he allows them to air their darkest, most abominable hostilities in the anodyne fluorescent light of the Barnes & Noble aisle. Rounding out this satisfying sampler was “Christmas Means Giving,” the story of a competitive suburban couple who donate their vital organs in an effort to one-up their neighbor’s charitable giving (their kids meet a grim end in a “motorized travel sauna”); a less than mesmerizing mock-sermon from an executive television producer; and a slice of life from the author’s own eccentric family called “Dinah, the Christmas Whore.” That essay culminated with the titular prostitute standing in their kitchen, interrogated by the starry-eyed Sedaris siblings as if she were St. Nick himself. Like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” before it, though with a good deal more swear words, “Holidays on Ice” was a dry indictment of our nation’s seasonal kitsch and thoughtless consumption: the shiny crosshatched hams, the corny artificial snow, the ultrasuede basketballs under the tree. Open the closets of ordinary-​looking citizens, Sedaris seemed to be saying, and any number of curios — material and emotional — will tumble out. Now the author has decided to take this bitters-soaked little fruitcake of a book, tack on a few extra stories from his more recent publications, garnish it with one that is entirely fresh and wrap the whole thing in a shiny new jacket. Well, pardon me for feeling as if I’ve been regifted! It’s not that there isn’t much to enjoy in this fortified parade of sad sacks; though there’s a certain irony in a New and Improved makeover for a book sending up American shopping habits. The classic stories are still relevant and funny — even under the looming shadow of the credit crisis. The new contribution, an “Animal Farm”-esque fable about a cruel cow and a doomed turkey locked in a game of Secret Santa, is amusing enough. But the other added material — the stuffing, if you will — undermines rather than improves the book. Not all holidays pack the satiric punch of Christmas, it turns out. Reading “Us and Them” and “The Monster Mash,” both about Halloween, feels a bit like eating marked-down candy. “Jesus Shaves,” borrowed (in slightly different form) from “,” is a lame yarn about how the Easter Bunny translates into French. When Sedaris strays from our shores, playing detached cultural reporter rather than fully committed participant, he is arguably less effective, as in “Six to Eight Black Men,” a phoned-in bit about Christmas customs in Europe recycled from the collection “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.” Sedaris has long mined the big December festivities for comic gold; these days, it appears, he and his admirers are content to smother it with tinsel.