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Recent Rumpus Interviewee, Davy Rothbart, caught up with the NY Times during his current tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of FOUND magazine and his new memoir My Heart is an Idiot.
Rothbart has become well known for his role as creator and curator of FOUND, one of the first of many publications to focus on exposing others’ lost private correspondences, scraps and doodles.
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Somehow I had missed that Davy Rothbart, the creator of FOUND Magazine, was also a short story writer, essayist, and documentary filmmaker.
...moreThat’s the slogan for Washington II Washington, an annual week-long camping trip started by FOUND magazine editor Davy Rothbart.
The coming trip will take kids from inner-city Washington D.C. and Southeast Michigan to Monogahela State Park in West Virginia. Washington II Washington is dedicated to the memory of Emmanuel Durant, Jr., a close friend and neighbor of Rothbart’s in Southeast Washington D.C.
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Gored by a banana on a barroom floor, a man lies supine as a nun slaps a midget, a down-and-out Santa drinks hard and a sullied beauty queen totes a severed head