Where the heck do you put David Sedaris?

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Where the heck do you put David Sedaris?

1GAGVLibrary
aug 21, 2020, 10:39 pm

My friends,

Our library has moved to a new space recently and I've been working on organizing it a little better (there's always a little issue, isn't there?).

But specifically, I wanted to ask how do other GLBT Libraries classify David Sedaris of Naked, or Augusten Burroughs? Where do you put these guys?

Just so you know, we have a non-fiction section that is still a bit of Dewey that we're converting to LC, and we've got a copy of one of them in the 800s, and another copy in biography (every story is in the first person) and a few in our fiction anthology section (as they are shorter works).

I'd like to put them all near each other!

Are they considered fiction? Essays? Sort of in between?

I've actually seen DS at in-person readings and have met him a few times, and saw Augusten's Running with Scissors as a movie, so I know what these things are, I just don't know where to put them!

Let me know what you do?

All best,

Gerry Szymanski
Out Alliance Librarian (formerly GAGV Librarian)

2aspirit
Redigeret: sep 30, 2020, 9:50 pm

David Sedaris of Naked
Augusten Burroughs

They look like memoirists to me at a glance, but I'm not familiar enough with either author to make suggestions.