Book Review
Happy-Go-Lucky: Sedaris skewers the pious, the mediocre and the outraged in brutally funny essays
David Sedaris’s latest collection of essays coincides with the advent of Covid and lead the humourist to reflect on successful long-term relationships, his father’s death and New York during the pandemic
When people find out that the American humourist David Sedaris and his husband Hugh have been together for 30 years, they invariably ask him for advice on how to sustain a long-term relationship. While Sedaris suggests that common interests (such as a “mutual aversion to overhead lights”) are important, he strongly cautions against analysing it and is particularly against involving a therapist. “Counselling, I counsel, is the first step to divorce,” he writes with his ...
