13 Days Of Christmas: David Sedaris mixes the grotesque and the genuine in Holidays On Ice
You already know the 12 Days Of Christmas, with its drummers drumming and partridges and gold rings, but we here at The A.V. Club like to take everything one step further, for your reading pleasure. Hence, 13 Days Of Christmas, a collection of essays on a handful of beloved holiday classics and a few that have sadly fallen through the cracks. Up today, the David Sedaris holiday story collection Holidays On Ice.
"I am a 33-year-old man applying for a job as an elf."
It gets worse: He wants to be a full-time elf at Macy's SantaLand, not an "evening and weekend" elf. The latter has more dignity; it's just a means of picking up some extra money during the holidays. The former marks a person who has nothing else to save him from such a humiliating state. But in the early '90s, before he became one ...
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