Chapter 18: David Sedaris on holding happiness hostage and healing holes in our hearts

<p >I discovered David Sedaris after asking my college writing mentor how to become a better comedy writer. He handed me a strange looking book with a pair of boxer shorts on the cover …</p> <p>Naked by David Sedaris.</p> <p>I’d never heard of David before, but when I went home and started paging through his book, I was completely blown away.</p> <p>His autobiographical essays were incredibly sardonic, witty, and laugh-out-loud funny, and dealt with his homosexuality and his obsessive compulsive tics and dropping out of school.</p> <p>Like millions of people around the worl...