David Sedaris announces new book release

There's nothing quite like the feeling of remedying an unfortunate situation. Turning lemons into lemonade, if you will. And if you're David Sedaris, the "lemons" are equivalent to a painfully dysfunctional childhood, and the "lemonade" is the collection of bestselling novels he wrote as a result of his youthful experiences. Hey, we can't all have it good and grow up maladjusted - it's the luck of the draw.

But in a radical shift away from his scarred past, Sedaris has announced his next book to be a collection of short stories that DO NOT contain any sordid details of family insanity. Of all things, the June 1, 2008 release of All the Beauty You Will Ever Need will bring a book of animal fables, written from the perspective of the fauna. Talk about changing horses in midstream.

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