Davy and Peter Rothbart

A little over an hour north-west of Louisville, Kentucky, is a town called Medora, Indiana. Population less than one-thousand. And little Medora High School, with about 35 male students, fields the worst basketball team in the league. The Medora Hornets. As of the start of the 2010 season, they were in the middle of a years-long losing streak. Filmmakers Davy Rothbart ("FOUND" magazine) and Andrew Cohn moved to Medora and filmed the season. In this interview, Rothbart speaks with WFPL's Erin Keane about basketball, rural Indiana, and the incredible young men at the heart of the film.

Director Davy Rothbart on basketball documentary "Medora"

Nathaniel Worley sits down with Davy Rothbart in this episode. Davy Rothbart is a bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, the creator of Found Magazine, a frequent contributor to public radio's This American Life, and the author of a book of personal essays, My Heart Is An Idiot, and a collection of stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Life After College with Davy Rothbart

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Episode 29 - Davy Rothbart

Film Gordon and Charles Kirkland sit down with Davy Rothbart, director of "17 Blocks."
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Davy Rothbart "17 Blocks" Interview

One night Davy Rothbart found a note on his car. It was a very personal note. Except it wasn't for him. The writer had mistaken Davy's car for her boyfriend's car. And it was that note that got Davy started on Found Magazine and the website foundmagazine.com. It's a collection of notes, scraps and photos found by people all over the world, items that are sometimes inexplicable and usually funny, perplexing and raw. They are always very personal in that they reveal something about the soul of the writer.

Now after ten years of publishing other people's innermost feelings, Davy has turned the lens on himself with his new book of personal essays, My Heart is an Idiot. He's on a 79-city tour to promote the book and to celebrate Found Magazine's tenth anniversary. He's been traveling with his brother Peter, a musician who writes songs based on found notes. Peter's new CD is You Are What You Dream.

Before their show at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Davy sat down with CHIRP Radio's Dan Epstein. Davy popped open his briefcase, shuffled through the hundreds of scraps of paper inside and chose a few of his favorite found notes to share.

(music heard in this story: The Baddest Nissans in the Northwest and You Are What You Dream, both by Peter Rothbart)

Found Magazine: Ten Years of Publishing Scraps of Your Soul

Peter Rothbart, co-editor of 'FOUND Magazine,' read material from the magazine and performed music inspired by found content in South Gym at Antioch College on Friday, March 8.

Director Davy Rothbart on basketball documentary "Medora"

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