Asking an interview subject about their pandemic isolation journey is dangerously close to passe.
“The legs are so wide, I look like one of those Greek soldiers.”
The pandemic is providing plenty of time to comb through journal entries, triggering as they may be.
Zoe McConnell for EW
“In so many of [the entries] I was on tour,” he says.
“I think it makes me a happy person that I’m not on social media.”
(See: “The Perfect Fit.")
Little, Brown
He counts high-end boutiques among his favorite places, and shopkeepers as his personal friends.
“The clerk said, ‘Welcome in,’ " Sedaris recalls with good-humored disdain.
“Civilization as we know it ends, but ‘Welcome in’ survives?
Zoe McConnell for EW
I realized I should have been grateful everyday I didn’t have to hear that.”
His readers will just have to hope he wrote the whole thing down.
