David Sedaris released a collection of short stories and he gained success.
Subsequently, in the wake of a controversy involving Mike Daisey's dramatizing and embellishing his personal experiences at Chinese factories, during an excerpt from his theatrical monologue for This American Life, new attention has been paid to the veracity of Sedaris's nonfiction stories
 Sedaris mentions Hamrick in a number of his stories, and describes the two of them as the "sort of couple who wouldn't get married

