Notable Los Angeles: 1/14–1/20
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Posts Tagged: Davy Rothbart
Notable Los Angeles: 5/22–5/28
Monday 5/22: CB Lee and Sarah Kuhn join together for a reading, signing, and panel discussion. 3:30 p.m. at Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library. Laini Giles discusses and signs The It Girl and Me: A Novel of Clara Bow. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Andrew Roe discusses and signs Where You Live. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
...moreFOUND Book Release Party in LA!
If you’re in Los Angeles this Saturday, stop by the Bootleg Theater to celebrate the release of FOUND Magazine: THE EARLY YEARS, a compilation of the best stuff from the first issues of a magazine that collects found objects of all kinds. Founder Davy Rothbart will read about his favorite finds, as well as his […]
...moreIs the Essay like Reality TV?
In an article about the contemporary form of the essay, Adam Kirsch states, “The new essay is exclusively about the self with the world serving only as a foil and an accessory.” This article compares essayists such as Rothbart and Crosley and Sedaris, to the prose equivalent of reality TV. In the essay, they claim to […]
...moreMy Heart is an Idiot Book Trailer
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 […]
...moreDavy Rothbart in The NYT
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 […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Davy Rothbart
Somehow I had missed that Davy Rothbart, the creator of FOUND Magazine, was also a short story writer, essayist, and documentary filmmaker.
...moreThe Rumpus Review of My Heart Is An Idiot
Sitting down to watch My Heart Is An Idiot, the romantic documentary by FOUND Magazine founder Davy Rothbart and director David Meiklejohn, I expected a typical story of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back…or loses her forever.” Allow me to dispel any preconceived notions: that is not the movie you’re going […]
...moreAnimatio Absurdus: The Rumpus Interview with Arthur Jones
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.
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