and, for the record, the robert wood johnson foundation, which helps to fund the kalispell pilot program, is also a funder of the newshour. >> woodruff: finally tonight, humorist david sedaris plumbs his own diaries for his latest book showcasing life's idiosyncrasies. jeffrey brown sat down with sedaris recently, amidst his performing around the country in some 120 cities. >> brown: a 60-year-old hugely successful writer, looking back at his younger self... ...the one before the millions of books sold, the countless live appearances, before adoring audiences and, often in his culottes, the regular appearances on late night tv. on a recent morning, we joined david sedaris at the archives of la mama theater in lower manhattan, one of the small stages where he first told stories. in a new book titled "theft by finding," sedaris offers a kind of fractured portrait of the artist behind the stories, through his personal diaries. >> trying this persona on and that persona on. you know, trying acting and, oh, now look, i'm trying sculptor, and now, all the sudden, i'm a painter. but that you co