{"id":158216,"date":"2026-04-23T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=158216"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:00:40","slug":"one-night-only-david-sedaris-at-square-books-this-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/one-night-only-david-sedaris-at-square-books-this-june\/","title":{"rendered":"One night only! David Sedaris at Square Books this June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sunday, June 21st \u2022 5:00 pm at Off Square Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Award-winning author, humorist, and comedian&nbsp;<strong>David Sedaris<\/strong>&nbsp;reads and signs his latest essay collection&nbsp;<em><strong>The Land and Its People<\/strong>,&nbsp;<\/em>reflecting on what it means to be a traveler, a brother, and a lifelong friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"158219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425-683x1024.webp?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425.webp?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425.webp?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425.webp?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316779425.webp?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"158220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1-683x1024.webp?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1.webp?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1.webp?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1.webp?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316776967-1.webp?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"158221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1-683x1024.webp?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1.webp?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1.webp?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1.webp?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9780316010795-1.webp?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>David Sedaris is one of America\u2019s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today\u2019s most observant writers. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of many&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bestsellers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/barrel-fever-stories-and-essays-david-sedaris\/114605?ean=9780316779425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>Barrel Fever<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/me-talk-pretty-one-day-david-sedaris\/114581?ean=9780316776967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Me Talk Pretty One Day<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, and<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim-with-earbuds-david-sedaris\/15547251?ean=9780316010795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Limited Seating. Ticket required. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/squarebooks\/2164802?utm_source=Speed+Reader&amp;utm_campaign=March13_eventsq1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-adb67ecef8-635888501&amp;mc_cid=457a06a144&amp;mc_eid=ae8df49454\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/squarebooks\/2164802?utm_source=Speed+Reader&amp;utm_campaign=March13_eventsq1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-adb67ecef8-635888501&amp;mc_cid=457a06a144&amp;mc_eid=ae8df49454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Get tickets here<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, June 21st \u2022 5:00 pm at Off Square Books &nbsp;Award-winning author, humorist, and comedian&nbsp;David Sedaris&nbsp;reads and signs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":158222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[34325,34323,34327,34326,34324,753],"class_list":["post-158216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-barrel-fever","tag-david-sedaris","tag-dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim","tag-me-talk-pretty-one-day","tag-the-land-and-its-people","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/davidsedaris.jpg?fit=650%2C325&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158225,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158216\/revisions\/158225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}