Like an overstuffed stocking on Christmas morning, NPR Holiday Favorites is full of unexpected pleasures and evergreen delights. • David Sedaris contributes his now classic “Santaland Diaries,” his account of his experiences playing Santa’s little helper at Macy’s in New York. • Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law’s recipe for cranberry relish onto the air—again. • Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to resist. • Ghanian-born commentator Meri Danquah shares her thoughts on Kwanzaa. • Cowboy poet Baxter Black describes a Christmas cookie with “the denseness of an anvil and the half-life of a radial tire.” • Robert Siegel goes in search of the correct spelling for December’s Jewish holiday. • The Thanksgiving tables are turned on unsuspecting Bostonians in “When Turkeys Attack.” And more...
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David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist and radio contributor. Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries." He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. Each of his four subsequent essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004), and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) have become New York Times Best Sellers. As of 2008, his books have collectively sold seven million copies. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality, and his life in France with his partner, Hugh Hamrick. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
