The author is resigned to the fact that any nonfiction writer these days is a target — even one who writes about boils and concrete toadstools. ”On the American humorist license, it reads, ‘Can exaggerate your head off,”’ Sedaris says. ”They haven’t changed the wording on it in hundreds of years.” Still, Sedaris’ latest stories include more specific qualifiers, like ”in my memory,” ”as I remember it,” ”a man I’ll call…,” and ”I’ll say her name was…” He’s also placed the designation ”realish” on the copyright page of his new book. He says the lawyers at Little, Brown, who usually meet with him before each book is published, had nothing to confer about once they saw realish. ”You say –ish, you don’t have to meet with anyone,” Sedaris says drily. ”If I’d known that, God! I’d have done it years ago!