Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (19 page)

Copyright © 2013 by David Sedaris
Cover design and illustration by Emily Burns
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Acknowledgment is made to the following, in which the stories in this collection first appeared, some differently titled or in slightly different form:
The New Yorker:
“Laugh, Kookaburra,” “Dentists Without Borders,” “A Guy Walks into a Bar Car,” “Author, Author,” “Memory Laps,” “Easy, Tiger,” “A Cold Case,” “Loggerheads,” “Standing By,” “Understanding Understanding Owls”;
The Guardian:
“#2 to Go”;
Times of London Sunday Magazine:
“Rubbish”;
Prospect:
“If I Ruled the World”;
GQ:
“Just a Quick E-mail”;
Esquire:
“Dog Days”;
The Best American Essays 2010
and
The Best American Travel Writing 2010:
“A Guy Walks into a Bar Car.”

ISBN 978-0-316-12568-0