David Rakoff Isn't Getting Too Comfortable

By Aaron Bailey in Arts & Entertainment on May 18, 2005 2:00PM

Chicagoist first picked up David Rakoff's acclaimed Fraud a few years back because he was Canadian and we had a thing for our neighbors to the North. Then we discovered Rakoff was gay and, well, hot (our criteria for picking new authors today) and we were hooked.

Rakoff is a regular on This American Life and has been called by TimeOut Chicago an amalgamation of "the wit of Stephin Merritt, the observations of Jerry Seinfeld and a lot of Greta Garbo references" thrown in.

To promote his upcoming book, Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff will be reading at 7:30pm tonight at the Abbey Pub (tickets required). The book's subtitle is "The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems," so we can only imagine what's in store.