Named Audible's Best Nonfiction of 2022 and one of AudioFile's 2022 Best Nonfiction Audiobooks“A sweeping excavation of voice and what it reveals about who we are." —Vanity FairRaise your hand if you cringe at the sound of your own voice, worry that you actually do sound like your mother, or have spent a sleepless night wondering if your inner and outer voices are in sync.Now, hands down, headphones on. La...

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, David Sedaris's observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared a...