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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, edited by Davy Rothbart

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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, edited by Davy Rothbart

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Requiem for a paper bag

Oclc number

232979452

Responsibility statement

edited by Davy Rothbart

Sub title

celebrities and civilians tell stories of the best lost, tossed, and found items from around the world

Table Of 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 for 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

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Paper bag

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