Found #9: In Hot Pursuit

by Davy Rothbart

Discover why The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle have all raved about the giddy high one gets from this powerful glimpse into the private lives of strangers. FOUND Magazine #9 is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious; each abandoned scrap of paper plucked off the streets by FOUND readers is rich with raw, captivating details of the lives being led all around us. The souls you'll drink up in our latest issue include a woman torn between 3 perfect men, a parade of Hollywood dreamers, and a bike thief with a moral compass. How did one New York playwright respond when he found a baby on the subway? What urgent questions do folks have for a Honolulu psychic? Can a shipwreck in the Great Lakes help a lovelorn suitor win Caitlin's heart? Learn the riveting answers inside this new issue, and feast your eyes on over 500 other beautiful, mysterious, and dazzling finds from across the U.S. and around the world.

96 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published December 5, 2013

About the author

Davy Rothbart's magazine Found is dedicated to discarded notes, letters, flyers, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling book, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World, published in April 2004. A second collection was published in May 2006. The magazine is published annually and co-edited by Rothbart's friend Jason Bitner.

Rothbart, a former Chicago Bulls ticket scalper, often tours the country to share finds and invite others to share their finds with him. His brother, musician Peter Rothbart, often accompanies him on these tours.

The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of Rothbart's short-stories, was published in August 2005 by Simon & Schuster. A shorter version of the same book was previously self-published by Rothbart's own production company, 21 Balloons Productions (named after Rothbart's favorite book, The 21 Balloons, by William Pène du Bois). An Italian edition, Il Surfista Solitario del Montana, was published in 2007 by Coniglio Editore. In 2008, actor Steve Buscemi optioned the book for film adaption, to be developed by Olive Productions; Buscemi has written the screenplay and plans to direct.