Who is the creator of Found Magazine, dedicated to collecting found notes, letters & lists?”
Davy Rothbart has been putting together discarded love letters, birthday cards, Polaroids, to-do lists and diary entries and compiling them into FOUND Magazine since June 2001. What started as a cut and paste ‘zine for friends has gone on to spawn a number of books, a Dirty Found line and helped launch his own career as an occasional NPR correspondent and author of the short story collection “The Lone Surfer of Monatana, Kansas.” Davy will be a part of several events in town over the next couple of weeks, starting with tomorrow night’s launch party at Crash Mansion for the new magazine The Rumpus alongside Michael Showalter, Will Sheff and others. He’s also hosting a free Valentine’s Day Party next week called “Kick My Heart’s Ass,” where they’ll be showing short films on love inside peep show booths. He talked with us about walking through New York naked, being an inside joke of Drew Barrymore’s and how “holding it down” might be keeping him down. How do finds that get sent into Found
