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“THIS BOOK IS F---ING GREAT! Nobody writes quite like Davy Rothbart, because nobody lives quite like Davy Rothbart--a true and funny ragged-hearted seeker of ecstasy, mystery, and human connection. My Heart Is an Idiot contains some of the most perfect and heartbreaking writing that I have ever read.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Welcome to the newly remodeled Heartbreak Hotel, where Davy Rothbart is concierge. He'll also unpack your underwear, restock your minibar, and do stand-up comedy in the lounge.
— Tom Robbins
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In Davy Rothbart's essays on heartache, mad love, the low life, and the high life, everybody is fascinating; everybody has something to say. The sentences speed you along down one narrative highway after another, and your tour guide is smart and funny and a real democrat: he has a sweet-tempered openness to experience that wins you over. This book breathes new life back into the personal essay, and these essays are a trip. Take that trip.
— Charles Baxter
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Tender, cool, funny, and utterly engaging, Davy Rothbart writes with a kind of warmth and cockeyed energy that make you love him. This book is marvelous.
— Susan Orlean
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An intriguing hybrid of timeless Midwestern warmth and newfangled jive talk.
— Sarah Vowell
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Davy Rothbart has the humor and purity of heart you want and need in an observer of contemporary American life. Without guile and with a belief in small towns, underdogs, love at first sight, the pull of the road, and the soulfulness of strangers, Rothbart is a kind of new-styled Bill Moyers--genuine, wide-eyed, and hopeful.
— Dave Eggers
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I believe in Davy. He's a force to be reckoned with.
— Ira Glass
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Davy's as real as it gets. This is a badass book.
— Kid Rock
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Davy's my kind of storyteller--honest, hilarious, deeply feeling, and slightly cracked. This is the fresh voice we've been looking for.
— Jim Carroll, author of The Basketball Diaries
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Davy writes with his whole heart. These stories are crushing.
— Arthur Miller on The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
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It's always exciting to discover a talented new writer. Davy writes with such energy, wit, and heart.
— Judy Blume on The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
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Like Kerouac's best novels, these stories are breezy and energetic dispatches from obscure corners of the country... Rothbart mines his material to heartbreaking effect.
— The Washington Post on The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas