Austin-bound, the author adds a new descriptor: controversial.
David Sedaris is used to crowds. As a New Yorker, he’s used to being in one of the most crowded cities in America: not crowded as in simply packed, but in the constant presence of a bubbling humanity in its streets.
But what’s the old saying about the past not being done with us? In 2022, he was with his friend Dawn in Chicago O'Hare International Airport. He recalled that she was still wearing a mask, “and I said ‘Dawn, take it off. It’s time to let it go. Take your mask off’ and so she did, and she immediately got Covid.”
So, instead, he travelled an empty world. “We went to London, we went to Sussex, we went to North Carolina a lot. And it was interesting to look around and see. In North Carolina it was like, ‘What pandemic? It doesn’t exist, what you’re talking about.’” It was similar during the Black Lives Matter protests. In New York at the time, he said, “Take a walk and you run into one. And then you went to North Carolina and, huh, never happened.
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