Flog me with a wet noodle

David Sedaris's response to the accusation that some of his stuff is made up. "I do think Sedaris exagerrates too much for a writer using the non-fiction label" says Alex Heard in the New Republic. Sedaris suggests that Heard look into more important questions such as 'Did Mark Twain fudge facts about how far the frog jumped' and 'Did the bed really fall on James Thurber's father'? Did the horse really walk into a bar?