Kopelson, Kevin. Sedaris. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007.

I Finished! this attempt at critical, scholarly analysis of David Sedaris's work more than a month ago, but have been working on a review of it for a periodical on whose staff I happily sit, and am not sure whether posting a review here constitutes previous publication, so I'm withholding sharing it. Plus it's, like, 1500 words.

At any rate, the book is much too interested in interpreting Sedaris's life through his essays, and even his fiction. "Some truths ... need masks," the guy argues, which is a dangerous way, I think, to read short stories. At one point Kopelson—a queer theorist with much to say on Proust—says that Sedaris is definitely "a bottom—not to mention a size queen" (196).

Well thank god someone's finally figured it out....