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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames\nEve
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 n_You_Are_Engulfed_in_Flames\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-09-30\nEvent Date End
 : 2010-09-30\n\nWith sardonic wit and incisive social critiques\, David Se
 daris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great ski
 ll with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctn
 ess proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observan
 t writers addressing the human condition today.\nDavid Sedaris is the auth
 or Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice\, as well as collections of personal e
 ssays\, Naked\, Me Talk Pretty One Day\, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and
  Denim\, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames\, each of which became a best
 seller. There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print an
 d they have been translated into 25 languages. He was the editor of Childr
 en Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Storie
 s. Sedaris's pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been
  included in &ldquo\;The Best American Essays.&rdquo\; His newest book\, a
  collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary 
 (with illustrations by Ian Falconer)\, will be published October 2010.\nHe
  and his sister\, Amy Sedaris\, have collaborated under the name &ldquo\;T
 he Talent Family&rdquo\; and have written half-a-dozen plays which have be
 en produced at La Mama\, Lincoln Center\, and The Drama Department in New 
 York City. These plays include Stump the Host\, Stitches\, One Woman Shoe\
 , which received an Obie Award\, Incident at Cobbler's Knob\, and The Book
  of Liz\, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. Dav
 id Sedaris's original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Lif
 e\, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by W
 BEZ. David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spo
 ken Word and Best Comedy Album. His most recent live album is David Sedari
 s: Live For Your Listening Pleasure (November 2009).\nThe UMASS Medical Sc
 hool Speakers Series features three acclaimed speakers - David Sedaris\, M
 itch Albom and Garrison Keillor\; ticket buyers are eligible to receive a 
 10% discount when buying all three performances.\n\nStart time: 09/30 (7:3
 0 pm)
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SUMMARY:David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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