Sedaris' autograph

Sedaris' autograph by Corinne S.

Today there was an "author fishbowl" for Amazon.com employees with David Sedaris. It was very cool to see him in person and hear him talk off-the-cuff. It took me 5 minutes or so to make his voice and face go together in my head though--with such a unique voice he's a pretty ordinary-looking guy.

I didn't have any of his books for him to sign, so I cut the end off of one of the boxes from his new book they raffles off. He didn't mind signing my cardboard though.

The line to get stuff signed took an hour to get through because he was being his chatty self and shooting the shit with everyone. He was drawing odd little pictures in people's books too.

He was narrating as he drew in the book of a woman before me in line--apparently the sketch was of a turtle that lives in an abortion clinic. He inquired of the room at large what a turtle who lives in an abortion clinic should be named. We had no brilliant retort.

I'm ordering the audio version of his new book from the library asap.