Research Catalog

Title

• Requiem for a paper bag : celebrities and civilians tell stories of the best lost, tossed, and found items from around the world / edited by Davy Rothbart.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Rothbart, Davy

Description

xiii, 234 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Presents entries from the website, FoundMagazine.com, discussing such discarded items as favorite shopping lists, drawings, diaries, toys, homework papers, and photographs as submitted by a range of famous and everyday contributors.

Uniform Title

Found magazine

Subjects

• Catalogs
• Lost articles > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Note

• "A Fireside book."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A tree grows in Vancouver : Part I / Seth Rogen -- A tree grows in Vancouver : Part II / Evan Goldberg -- Joey rules the world / Miranda July -- Central Reese service station / K.C. Johnson -- What else I know about U.S. history / Sarah Vowell -- Photo me / Amy Shearn -- The queen of Haight Street / Kori Gardner -- The next building I plan to bomb / Charles Baxter -- Finding the diary of Tammy Pierce / Esther Pearl Watson -- Speech day, 1982 / David Shrigley -- The bloody jockstrap incident / Jenji Kohan -- Best regards, Robert Zimmerman / David Simon -- How I found my mother / Bich Minh Nguyen -- Animal husbandry / David Kirby -- Lost / Stuart Dybek -- Money or nothing / Andy Samberg -- Shreds and shards / Susan Orlean -- Woodstove girl / Heidi Julavits -- Trash night / Byron Case -- Ammonite / Billy Bragg -- All good deeds must be punished / Patton Oswalt -- R-o-c-k o-n / Marlon Hill -- Dear The Rock / Kimya Dawson -- Post-rock / Frank Warren --^
• I just crush a lot / Nick Paumgarten -- 4" x 6" / Michelle Quint -- Message in 1,000 bottles / Tad Friend -- Take the frog / Eli Horowitz -- One that got away / Robert Evans -- If found, please return to-- / Fred Chao -- Russian hill / Andrew Bird -- The frog princess / Devendra Banhart -- Ziploc fortune cookie / Damian Kulash -- Bobby / Del Tha Funkee Homosapian -- Wanted dead or alive / Elizabeth Ellen -- Al-Zawahiri's letter / Michael Yon -- Eggs before they hatch / Dave Eggers -- Requiem for a paper bag / Drew Daniel -- My found life / Michael Musto -- The blonde / Tom Robbins -- The Sheri Miller story / Al Burian -- Jeans / Rachel DeWoskin -- What goes up must come down / Mohsin Hamid -- Your employer / Nelly Reifler -- Killing him / Richard Siken -- The good pirate / Paula Coelho -- Directions to finding you (or maybe just an inferior prayer) / Angel Nafis -- No panties allowed / Steve Almond -- The journal problem / Jacob Slichter --^
• The man who was not there / Chuck Klosterman -- I was torn from a book / Kevin Sampsell -- Approaching progress / Jonathan Lethem -- Christmas Ted / Anna Stothard -- The one-dollar umbrella / Robert Olen Butler -- Rod and Frank / Ben Greenman -- Don't include the police / Aimee Bender -- Personette / Kevin Dole 2 -- The fairy tree on Julian Avenue / Jesse Thorn -- Everything's gonna come out today / Julian Goldberger -- Finding it, finding him, finding me / Eldad Malamuth -- Imagine / Mike Schank -- The old clerk's diary / Katherine Dunn -- Inside out / Jim Carroll -- Good times / Damon Wayans -- How I spent my summer vacation / Jenny Owen Youngs -- The Frankenstein car / Chuck D -- Mad Gratitude.

ISBN

• 9781416560548
• 1416560548

LCCN

^^2009006660

OCLC

232979452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library