Sedaris wrote about the dark side of holiday spirit in the Santaland Diaries, a sardonic collection of somewhat-exaggerated stories based on his travails as Crumpet the elf.
That seven-minute reading made him an in-demand talent overnight. And it created an NPR holiday tradition that's now in its 30th year.facilitated that fateful first reading"If you sat down and you thought about it and you thought, 'Huh, what could I write about that people would respond to?' Well, everybody has to deal with Christmas," he said."And it's either going to torment you or delight you.
And Sedaris also wants the record to show that despite the story's air of Christmas cynicism, he's no Grinch. "It's a bit interesting to me that people over the years have come up to me and said, 'Oh, Santaland, you know, I hate Christmas too,'" he said."I love Christmas. I thought it came across in the story. Love it!"Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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