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DAVID SEDARIS presents
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Copies now available for pickup or purchase!) THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Weren't able to purchase a ticket? All is not lost! We'll have an audio feed from the talk outside of our store. Anyone interested can join the outdoor audience AND get a book signed by Mr. Sedaris before heading home. (We'll have copies for sale, of course.) Harvard Book Store is tickled to welcome DAVID SEDARIS for a presentation of his newest collection of essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Normally we would hold this event in a larger venue, but due to Mr. Sedaris's contractual obligations, we'll be hosting him in the store. Pre-paid tickets may be picked up at Harvard Book Store in the days leading up to or on the day of the event. TICKET HOLDERS: Please arrive by 5:45 pm at the latest on June 6th to gain entrance into the event. Tickets are redeemable for one copy of Mr. Sedaris's new collection of essays, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, which will be available for pick-up as of TUES., JUNE 3RD at Harvard Book Store and also at the event itself. You must present your ticket (the voucher for the book is included on the right-hand side of your ticket) to receive a book. "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life—having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds—to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing.
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