Davy Rothbart
Posted on November 1, 2005 by Tito
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7 PM at Cody’s Fourth Street, Berkeley
DAVY ROTHBART turns his hand from Found to fiction with a collection of stories
that captures the oddity, poetry, and dignity of every day life. THE LONE
SURFER OF MONTANA, KANSAS, rather like an early Bruce Springsteen album in its
leanness and grittiness, is full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor.
Rothbart writes of road trips, questionable heroes, trouble with the law, and
golden-hearted thugs, from Midwestern farm fields to state prisons and border
town brothels. An early reviewer, in Elle, writes, “Provocative, original, and
potent – at one moment hilarious, at the next heartbreaking…robust with
flavor…we’re left yearning for more.†Davy Rothbart is the creator of the
acclaimed Found Magazine as well as the book of the same name, in which he laid
bare the tantalizing tales to e discovered in the things we lose or toss away.
His work continues to give readers an uncensored, poignant, and hilarious peek
into other people’s lives – people-watching on paper – but unlike tying them up
neatly with a bow, as in the magazine, his new stories leave us haunted and
wondering how the story continues, much like life itself. A graduate of the
University of Michigan, Davy Rothbart is a contributor to NPR’s This American
Life.
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