Little, Brown“Theft by Finding: Diaries, 1977-2002” by David Sedaris By Rachel Manteuffel, The Washington Post David Sedaris has spent decades mining his life for nuggets he can polish and sell: the time he was a department store elf, going to the dentist in Paris, his time in a nudist trailer park. His essays tend to meander over a true-ish story from his life, with characters a bit more eccentric than the people you tend to meet in your life, like the taxidermist with the mummified human arm or his neighbor who dyed her teenage daughter’s hair gray in order to keep being the pretty one. To a true Sedarist many of the essays in his new book — a collection of his diary entries over 25 years called “Theft by Finding” — might seem familiar.