Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 7:00pm
A collection of personal essays by a man with a knack for stumbling into
alcohol- and lust-fueled predicaments. Rothbart (The Lone Surfer of
Montana, Kansas, 2005) is the creator of the fanzine Found Magazine,
which features the provocative and poignant notes people leave in coffee
shops and on sidewalks. On the evidence of these pieces, his life is
similarly haphazard. In "Shade," his pining for a woman who resembles a
beloved movie character leads him to a long-distance relationship and a
disastrous road trip. In "Tarantula," a one-night stand ends with him in
a swimming pool with a dead body. And in "What Are You Wearing?" a
random caller becomes a regular phone-sex partner. In small doses,
Rothbart's say-yes-to-anything attitude and self-deprecating tone is
entertaining and engaging. The best piece, "99 Bottles of Pee on the
Wall," tracks his obsession with a scam artist who runs a series of
fraudulent literary contests; the slow burn of his outrage--and growing
crush on a female author who got taken--is smartly paced, and he's
candid about his quixotic pursuit.*EVENT WILL BE HELD AT THE POWERHOUSE
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