''Barrel Fever and Other Stories'' is a 1994 collection of short stories and essays by
David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (; born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries.” He published his first co ...
. The book is divided into two sections. The first section consists of short fiction and the second half contains autobiographical essays. The most famous of the essays is "
SantaLand Diaries
"Santaland Diaries" is an essay by David Sedaris. It is a humorous account of Sedaris' stint working as a Christmas elf in "Santaland" at Macy's department store.
Sedaris first read the essay on National Public Radio's ''Morning Edition'' on Dec ...
", the essay that made Sedaris famous when he read it on
National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n ...
in 1992. The essay tells of his experiences working as an elf at
Macy's
Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...
.
Contents
Stories
# Parade
# Music for Lovers
# The Last You'll Hear from Me
# My Manuscript
# Firestone
# We Get Along
# Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2
# Don's Story
# Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!
# Jamboree
# After Malison
# Barrel Fever
Essays
# Diary of a Smoker
# Giantess
# The Curly Kind
# SantaLand Diaries
1994 short story collections
1994 non-fiction books
Works by David Sedaris
American short story collections
American essay collections
Little, Brown and Company books
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