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This American Life CD
This double-disc set contains five of Davy Rothbart’s most popular stories for This American Life, including a visit with Mr. Rogers, Davy’s journey to Brazil with his deaf mother to visit the miracle healer John of God, and a live reading of favorite FOUND Magazine notes from This American Life’s “Lost in America” tour.
“The kind of thing you listen to and then you think, I’m going to do something, I don’t know what it is, but I want to do something that could possibly move people the way that these stories moved me.” –David Sedaris
Davy’s This American Life 2-CD set is ten bucks, plus four bucks shipping and handling.
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
Davy Rothbart’s first collection of stories, full of heartbreak and humor, received lavish praise from The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, among many others, and received Borders’ Original Voices Prize in 2005.
“Davy writes with his whole heart. These stories are crushing.” –Arthur Miller
“It’s always exciting to discover a talented new writer. Davy writes with such energy, wit, and heart.” –Judy Blume
“Storytelling at its simplest and finest…a blend of melancholy and bravado.”
–Alex Kotlowitz, The Chicago Tribune
“Like Kerouac’s best novels, these stories are breezy and energetic dispatches from obscure corners of the country…” –The Washington Post
Learn much more here at the 21 Balloons Stories page.
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Anvil’s New Music for Virtuosos CD
Anvil’s debut is a dreamy, nostalgiac album that feels snatched from both the past and the future. Reagan, the Challenger explosion, your first kiss… it’s the ’80s as viewed from 2029.
“Bound to release a virus on retrophiles of all sorts…” –XLR8R
**** (Four stars/highest rating)
“Instrumental downtempo and hip-hop composed of trance-like laptop beats and ’80s pop synthesizers? Don’t try to imagine it, just go out and buy it.” –Real Detroit Weekly
Ten bucks plus four bucks shipping.
The Poem Adept’s Songs for the Long, Lonely Drive CD
Ever driven through the night on a cross-country journey? The Poem Adept’s soulful and transporting music is the ideal soundtrack. Singer/ songwriter Peter Rothbart is known for his lush melodies, rich voice, and finely-crafted lyrics. His debut album contains eleven songs of love, loss, and wanderlust, including “Able Glass Note” — based on a Found note — and crowd favorite “The Booty Don’t Stop.”
Learn much more here at The Poem Adept Web site.
Ten bucks plus four bucks shipping.
FOUND I & FOUND II Books
From Simon & Schuster come the bestselling FOUND books — each one brimming full with over 256 pages of finds! Most of the finds in these books are all-new and have never appeared in FOUND Magazine.
“A great book!” –David Letterman
“A fascinating and wonderfully moving collage of human emotion.”
–The Los Angeles Times
“What’s more irresistible than reading a letter not meant for your eyes? … A quirky lens into the flotsam and jetsam of humanity.” –The Chicago Tribune
“FOUND is a powerful fix for thinking voyeurs.” –The Boston Globe
Click here to purchase FOUND I from Amazon.
Click here to purchase FOUND II from Amazon.
Fourteen bucks plus four bucks shipping. Be sure to note who you would like the book signed to.
Fourteen bucks plus four bucks shipping. Be sure to note who you would like the book signed to.
Rise Against’s Generation Lost DVD
Davy Rothbart’s surprisingly moving and intimate punk rock documentary “How We Survive” forms the heart of this DVD from Geffen Records. Davy, along with fellow filmmakers David Meiklejohn and Rachel Dengiz, followed Rise Against for two weeks on the 2006 Warped Tour. In each city, the filmmakers chose a fan from the crowd and spent the next day documenting their lives. “How We Survive” weaves together the stories of the band members, their families, and their fans to powerful effect.
Click here to purchase Generation Lost from Amazon.
FOUND Magazines
From The New Yorker:
“The world is full of lost love letters if you know where to look. Davy Rothbart, the publisher of the magazine FOUND, knows where to look: the floors of city buses, the recycling bins behind Kinko’s, the backstops of windblown ball fields. Rothbart and a growing army of fellow-scavengers are constantly finding doodles, diaries, report cards, and appeals to conscience (”If you took my detergent I’m sure it was a mistake so I’m not mad yet”). Then Rothbart publishes these finds in FOUND, adding curatorial captions in a welter of typefaces, ransom-note style. His magazine is as unexpected as a tumbleweed…”
Click here to visit the official FOUND Magazine store.
