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Requiem For A Paper Bag: Celebrities And Civilians Tell Stories Of The Best Lost, Tossed, And Found Items From Around The World (2009)

by Davy Rothbart(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416560548 (ISBN13: 9781416560548)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: This is the second time I've read this book ~ and it has held up to my fond memories. Reading people's stories about found items is at once fascinating and a lot of the time hilarious. The people feautured in this anthology know how to ponder about things that can only be guessed at, that's for sure. They leave you wishing that you could find your own scrap of paper with a mysterious scribble, or someone's wayward doodle, or... heh heh, toy soldier.
review 2: I'm not sure why so many others have such negative things to say about this book. I love Davy Rothbart's Found Magazine collections, and I thought this was an interesting twist on "found" things. When I find things, especially very mysterious or cryptic items, I always wonder (and often concoct)the stor... morey behind the item. Voyeuristic? Perhaps… but I’m OK with that. I prefer to think of the process as calisthenics of the imagination. It’s healthy! What harm is there in theorizing about the individuals and the circumstances that prompted said found item? None that I can think of. I’ve almost convinced myself that a Tom Snyder Productions Post-It note about aliens featured in a “Found” anthology was something I lost while on my honeymoon in New Orleans, but that’s a whole ‘nother story. I thought this short story collection, which did just that, sometimes by celebrities, sometimes by everyday Joes, was fabulous. I really liked the following quote by author, Katherine Dunn, "To me, found letters and notes... are the poetry of the universe." less

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