If You Can't Tell When David Sedaris Is "Inventing," It's Your Problem

It’s once more into the breach with David Sedaris.

“I don’t think David ever posed himself as a journalist,” said Torey Malatia, who heads Chicago Public Media, which produces “This American Life.” “He’s a storyteller, a humorist. The giveaway is when he’s wildly exaggerating. It’s art. It’s fiction.”

See? Quit your complaining. You’re just supposed to know when he’s lying and when he isn’t. “It’s acknowledged that he’s making things up,” says a visiting journalism professor in Las Vegas! See? It’s just acknowledged. If you don’t get “the giveaway,” it’s because you’re not a coastal elite with a finely tuned ear for lies and not lies. Also there should be a morning drive-time NPR show called The Giveaway.