![]() The time has come to admit it: David Sedaris is nobody's hypothetical love child but his own. He wins awards - the Thurber Prize for American Humor, in 2001 - and sells books by the metric ton. Over the last decade, Sedaris has crept into his own eminence and is now a pledge-drive superstar for public radio and a regular presence in The New Yorker. ![]() These kinds of comparisons may be a compliment to a young writer's promise but they're an insult to the established writer's originality. Salinger and John Waters'' and the love child of Dorothy Parker and James Thurber. ![]() He has also been called a ''caustic mix of J. On the covers, flyleaves and outer packagings of the various David Sedaris-branded items in my possession, Sedaris is likened to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, William Trevor, Nathanael West, Woody Allen, Fran Lebowitz, Mark Leyner and Voltaire. Cast around for a useful precedent for what Sedaris does, and you quickly get lost. It ''suggests cardigan sweaters,'' he once complained. ![]() BY consensus, David Sedaris is now America's pre-eminent humorist. ![]()
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