David Sedaris’s brilliantly skewed vision of the world is captured in an entirely new form: a delightfully animated short movie inspired by one of the author’s diary entries.

Against the backdrop of bold, colorful graphics and music composed especially for this app, the story unfolds in the author’s own voice. It is a story that, in true Sedaris fashion, improbably combines a tractor pull in Australia, a revolting Alaskan cocktail, and the experience of being unable to muster a facial expression appropriate to the circumstances.

David Sedaris (writer and narrator) is the author of the bestselling books Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. His writings appear frequently in The New Yorker and are heard on Public Radio International’s This American Life.

Laurie Rosenwald (animator) has contributed drawings to The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. She is the author of All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem and, for children, And to Name But Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green Blue. She teaches a popular workshop in New York called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose.”