It's been 28 years since National Public Radio first broadcast "The Santaland Diaries," David Sedaris' slightly exaggerated memoir of working as a Christmas elf at Macy's in New York. Since then, the erstwhile Raleigh resident has topped the best seller lists with a dozen collections of his snarky, self-deprecating stories, essays and regurgitated diary entries. Now comes "The Best of Me" -- not exactly a "Greatest Hits" album ("Santaland" is conspicuously absent) but a collection of 46 New Yorker pieces by Sedaris published over the last quarter century. It's a fine core sample of the essen...