Chapter Two Hundred Twenty-Eight: Calypso

Listening to David Sedaris's newest collection of personal essays, Calypso, made me look forward to getting in my car and driving.  I really can't offer much higher praise.  While, as advertised, this collection is a bit darker than some of his earlier pieces, it's just as funny--maybe even more so for its dealings with aging, illness, suicide, and death.  By turns thoughtful and hilarious, I thoroughly enjoyed Sedaris's meditations on problems great and small and his trademark descriptions of some of the weirder people and events of his life.  I could write more, but really, you should just go and listen to or read Calypso for yourself.