Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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| Author | David Sedaris |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Ian Falconer |
| Cover artist | Ian Falconer |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Genre | Essay collection, Fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | September 28, 2010 |
| Publication place | Vereinigte Staaten |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), audio book |
| Pages | 176 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0316038393 (first edition, hardcover) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Preceded by | When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary is a collection of animal-related humorous short stories by David Sedaris, a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor. The collection was published in the fall of 2010.
Sedaris intentionally left names of the animals out as it may give a predisposition to opintion of the animals. Animals, also, don't need description. Sedaris said in an October 2010 interview with The Washington Post, "If I wrote, 'Phillip and Amanda had been dating for two weeks when they ran out of things to talk about', I would have to give you a whole description. But, everyone knows what a squirrel and a chipmunk look like. So, I wrote it as, 'The squirrel and the chipmunk had been dating for two weeks when they ran out of things to talk about.'" At one point the title of the book was "Lets Study Diabetes With Owls"
Chapters
The Cat and the Baboon
Fable about gossip and the service industry. Read on This American Life Episode "That's Not What I Meant" °288 5/6/2005 [1]
The Migrating Warblers
The Squirrel and the Chipmunk
Also known as "so a squirrel and a chipmunk walk into a bar". Fable about a squirrel, a chipmunk, and a love that could never be. Read on This American Life episode "Star-Crossed Love" °308, Aired February 20, 2006 [2]
The Toad, The Turtle, and the Duck
The Motherless Bear
Audio version read by Elaine Stritch
The Mouse and the Snake
The Parenting Storks
The Faithful Setter
The Crow and the Lamb
The Sick Rat and the Healthy Rat
Previously called "The White Rat". Read on This American Life Episode "Crybabies" °415 on September 24, 2010[3]
The Cow and the Turkey
Barnyard animals decide to play "Secret Santa. Read on This American Life episode "The This American Life Holiday Spectacular" °305 December 23, 2005 [4]
The Vigilant Rabbit
In 2010, Sedaris told various radio personalities, after traveling many cities on a book tour wearing a vest, an elderly TSA woman in an airport aggressively requested him to remove his vest, "I'm going to make you into a rabbit" he said.
The Judicious Brown Chicken
The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
This story follows a parrot who works as a journalist for a newspaper titled The Eagle and a pig who took over as director of the city's art museum. The parrot first meets the pig when she interviews him at a restaurant. The parrot learns that he is a Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig. Later that day, the parrot spoke to a Red-Shouldered Hawk who was a Vietnam War veteran and found the pig's positon at the museum offensive to himself. The next day, the article was released and its headline, Potbellied Museum Director Stirs Controversy upset the pig (he didn't want to be refered to as "potbellied.") A while after the paper was released, the pig went on a long diet, losing ten pounds in the process. At a costume ball for the museum's benefit, he ran into the parrot again. She notices that he had lost weight since the last time she saw him. Apperently swooned by the pig's new appearence, she tells the pig that she's currently single and then offers him to dance with her. By the end of the story, it's evident that the parrot and the pig are now in a relationship. The story was read on Episode 315 of This American Life on July 21, 2006[5]
Hello Kitty
A new story by David Sedaris about what happens when natural enemies meet in an Alcoholics Anonymous program in prison. Read on This American Life, episode "Cat and Mouse" °309 February 24, 2006[6]