Davy Rothbart

Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He's continually coming up with outrageous schemes, which he always manages to pull off. Well, almost always. But even when things don't work out, Rothbart finds meaning and humor in every moment. Whether it's humiliating a scammer who takes money from aspiring writers or playing harmless (but side-splitting) goofs on his deaf mother, nothing and no one is off-limits. But as much as Rothbart is a tragically lovable, irresistibly brokenhearted hero, it's his prose that's the star of the book. In the tradition of David Sedaris and Sloane Crosley but going places very much his own, his essays show how things that are seemingly so wrong can be so, so right.

Essays

My Heart Is an Idiot

The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

Found

Reproduces notes, signs, homework assignments, break-up letters, photographs, drawings, and other abandoned items ranging from heartbreaking to hilarous that offer a look into the everyday lives of ordinary people.

More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

Found II

How Did You End Up Here?

Found Magazine #6

Hey! My name is Davy. I make a magazine called Found. We publish notes & letters that folks find on the street. I asked my favorite writers, musicians, artists & entertainers to tell me about the things they've found. These are the stories they've shared.

Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items from Around the World

Requiem for a Paper Bag

Discarded valentines. Ransom notes. To-do lists. Diaries. Homework assignments. A break-up letter written on the back of an airsickness bag. Whether they are found on buses, at stores, in restaurants, waiting rooms, parking lots, or even prison yards, these items give readers an uncensored, poignant, and often hilarious peek into other people's lives. By collecting them in his hit magazine, Found (and its companion website, www.foundmagazine.com), Davy Rothbart has bewitched the nation with a surprising window into its heart and soul and turned his many readers into an army of sharp-eyed finders. Found is chock-full of the latest and greatest of these finds, arranged in the style of the magazine, laying bare the tantalizing tales to be discovered in the trash we toss. By turns heartbreaking and hysterically funny, Found is a mesmerizing tribute to everyday life and our eternal curiosity about our fellow human beings.

The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Ar

In The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs. Full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor, Rothbart's tales blaze their way from midwestern farm fields to state prisons and border-town brothels. Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book, Found, the stories in The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas capture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.

Stories

The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas

Davy Rothbart cerca l'amore in tutti i posti sbagliati. Di continuo. In pratica si innamora perdutamente di ogni bella ragazza che incontra, ma è raro che sia ricambiato. Spesso e volentieri salta in macchina e sfreccia per mezza America con il cuore in mano e immancabilmente se ne viene fuori con idee e imprese stravaganti, che alla fine riesce sempre a realizzare. Be', quasi sempre. Ma anche quando le cose non vanno come dovrebbero, Rothbart trova un senso e un motivo d'ironia in ogni situazione. Che affronti un imbroglione deciso a spillar soldi ad aspiranti scrittori o dissezioni un caso di omicidio per cui è finito in carcere un amico potenzialmente innocente o che si risvegli nudo in un parco di New York, niente (e nessuno) è off limits.

Il cuore è idiota

Jason Bitner

FOUND #5 is a compilation of the best crime-related finds, all previously un-published.

Davy Rothbart

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