{"id":1753,"date":"2008-06-18T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/living-writers\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:50:54","slug":"sedaris-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/living-writers\/sedaris-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sedaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_1277937866597895838gmail-il\">David<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"m_1277937866597895838gmail-il\"><span class=\"il\">Sedaris<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 came to town with his\u00a0 essay collection\u00a0<i>When You Are Engulfed in Flames<\/i>\u00a0(Little, Brown 2008).\u00a0 In this conversation, we talk about the wonders of the public library, Tobias Wolff and Matt Damon, and fact checking. We also talk about balancing humor, unstable fables and little known ant facts.<\/p>\n<p>*archives: taped June 9, 2008<\/p>\n<p>*photo credit: Ingrid Christie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1753-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-17-170001-EDT.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-17-170001-EDT.mp3\">http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-17-170001-EDT.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-17-170001-EDT.mp3\">Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David\u00a0Sedaris\u00a0 came to town with his\u00a0 essay collection\u00a0When You Are Engulfed in Flames\u00a0(Little, Brown 2008).\u00a0 In this conversation, we talk about the wonders of the public library, Tobias Wolff and Matt Damon, and fact checking. 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