michelle

3.5 stars

Sedaris loses one rating star for not enough original material. Half of these essays were published in The New Yorker over the past few years.

Great concept, clunky execution.

Mercifully short “bad” novel that examines the Bay Area's changing culture in the meta-manner of a Stewart Lee monologue. Amusingly familiar for anyone who lived in San Francisco between the late-nineties and today, but probably best for those who have left. Not sure the author deserves to be so cynical about a city he only lived in for only four years.

3.5 stars