What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.

The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; two never-before-collected stories, 'Unbuttoned' and 'Undecided'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.

Table of contents:

• 'Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2'
• 'Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol'
• 'Christmas Means Giving'
• 'The Incomplete Quad'
• 'You Can't Kill the Rooster'
• 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'
• 'Jesus Shaves'
• 'Us and Them'
• 'Let It Snow'
• 'The Ship Shape'
• 'The Girl Next Door'
• 'Repeat After Me'
• 'Six to Eight Black Men'
• 'Possession'
• 'Nuit of the Living Dead'
• 'The Understudy'
• 'In the Waiting Room'
• 'Solution to Saturday's Puzzle'
• 'Town and Country'
• 'The Cat and the Baboon'
• 'The Motherless Bear'
• 'The Faithful Setter'
• 'Dentists Without Borders'
• 'Think Differenter'
• 'Memory Laps'
• 'Loggerheads'
• 'If I Ruled the World'
• 'Easy, Tiger'
• 'Laugh, Kookaburra'
• 'A Guy Walks into a Bar Car'
• 'Standing By'
• 'Understanding Understanding Owls'
• 'Now We Are Five'
• 'A House Divided'
• 'The Perfect Fit'
• 'Leviathan'
• 'A Modest Proposal'
• 'Why Aren't You Laughing?'
• 'The Spirit World'
• 'Unbuttoned'