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"It was a gimmick, you know? So I ignored him because I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction." For a few moments, Sedaris's face clouds at the memory. "He just did it because he wanted to be written about," recalls Sedaris, with the distaste of an artist discussing a plagiarist. It wasn't even the loss of the food, although he was a little upset about that ("I'd been looking forward to that salmon!") – it was the fact that the man was trying to cheat. It wasn't the hygiene issue that bugged him. In fact, he was downright annoyed, which is not a common reaction from a writer who tends to regard the world in general with wide-eyed affection and his readers in particular with real fondness ("I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you," he says with an almost straight face). Understandably, Sedaris was not best pleased. So he reached over and grabbed a handful of food off the Sedaris plate. T he man routinely described as the best living humorist in America, David Sedaris, was recently enjoying a plate of marinated salmon over greens while signing books in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois when a fan decided he wanted more than the writer's autograph.
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