David Sedaris, “Holidays on Ice”

This essay by the comic memoirist David Seders is published in  the New Yorker and is one of his most well known essays, an excerpt from his book Santaland Diaries. I like to teach David Sedaris because he’s also a life long diarist (we talk about journalling and daily writing practices a lot in this class).

His book Theft by Finding features his diaries from 1977-2002. He even has an app about his diary entries.

Here is the essay for our class:

'Holidays on Ice,' by David Sedaris - The New York Times
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