Author, playwright and humorist David Sedaris ... Q: Do you come back to North Carolina often? Do you still have family here? A: Yeah – we got a house on Emerald Isle a little over two years ...

Humorist David Sedaris’ first ... elsewhere in the country. “All my North Carolina audiences do,” he said. “When I read a story about Emerald Isle, they know what the area looks like ...

David Sedaris ... in part by dying. Sedaris, who turns 62 this year, isn't in such desperate straits. Yet his latest collection, "Calypso" -- set mostly at Emerald Isle Beach -- has shadows ...

Happy-Go-Lucky starts with Sedaris ... Emerald Isle beach house (wonderfully named the Sea Section) after Hurricane Florence and the family’s time spent in their father’s North Carolina ...

It was a large family; Sedaris had four sisters and a baby brother, Paul, born after the move to North Carolina ... excursions to a summer week at Emerald Isle. (Sedaris wound up buying a ...

Late arrivals to humorist and author David Sedaris’ Tuesday night reading ... As a child, his family vacationed on Emerald Isle, North Carolina. In 2013, he bought a beach house there, and ...

David Sedaris is a bit of a loner ... and how his family dealt with it on a beach vacation to North Carolina’s Emerald Isle. The story is titled “Now We Are Five,” and is classic Sedaris ...

David Sedaris’ work has always had a macabre ... But it turns poignant when the Sea Section, the vacation home on Emerald Isle, North Carolina, they all share, is destroyed by Hurricane Florence.