Best of AOT: David Sedaris Reads Crybaby from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
June 22, 2009 by Rob
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While on book tour for When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris read to a standing room-only crowd at the Tattered Cover book store in Lower Downtown Denver.
This story from the book, Crybaby, recounts Sedaris’s experience with a publicly mourning seatmate on a flight from New York City to Paris. Listen in as Sedaris electrifies the Tattered Cover crowd.
This podcast was originally recorded on June 22, 2008. Listen to the entire David Sedaris Podcast.
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