Wynn Wheldon

‘Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls’, by David Sedaris – review

issue 27 April 2013

David Sedaris writes principally for The New Yorker. Urbane, then, American, smart. But is he a memoirist, a fabulist or an essayist? He is most often described as a humorist, but he’s not funny like, say, Woody Allen. He’s no Stephen Leacock. The aim of his writing is not to make the reader laugh.

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