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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
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.
Rothbart, who is twenty-seven, lives with his parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan. About once a year, he puts out an issue of Found; the...
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