Earlier this month, we spoke with Davy Rothbart about the his new collection, My Heart Is an Idiot, lauded in this week’s Rumpus review as “16 essays that read like early Jack Kerouac, if you substituted Charlie Parker for Dr. Dre.”
Coincidentally, in the recently released book trailer, Rothbart’s father channels one of Dre’s protégés. Check it out after the jump:
“My Heart is An Idiot” Book Trailer – Big Poppa from Dan Tice on Vimeo.
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