Which sounds weird, right? Can’t people just listen to the albums? One thing that a greatest hits album used to do for bands was bring in new listeners. It’s about 15% of what he’s put out in various books at this point. Sedaris’ Best of Me weighs in at 400 pages, just a little longer than a typical novel. How grueling was that collection process? Raymond Carver’s Selected Stories is 960 pages. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is 752 pages, and with the lengths of her stories being what they are, that’s about 30,000 stories, give or take. I’ve got a complete stories of Flannery O’Connor that I’d gladly trade for a volume half as long and twice as tight. Lots of writers put out collections, but they’re more along the lines of…”complete” collections. What would a David Sedaris fan get out of the intro, and what’s the big idea behind a “Best Of” collection anyway?Īnd what can writers learn from the existence of this book (without ever reading it)?Īctually.yeah! I think it’s a great idea. David Sedaris is putting out The Best of Me, a book of his self-selected best stuff.
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