Davy Rothbart has been putting together discarded love letters, birthday cards, Polaroids, to-do lists and diary entries and compiling them into FOUND Magazine since June 2001. What started as a cut and paste 'zine for friends has gone on to spawn a number of books, a Dirty Found line and helped launch his own career as an occasional NPR correspondent and author of the short story collection "The Lone Surfer of Monatana, Kansas." more ›

THEATER: Listen up: The World Financial Center’s unique Word of Mouth Festival is going on through Saturday only. Taking inspiration from the festival’s location, The Women’s Project is presenting a series of short plays by women playwrights called Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$. They’re all site-specific works about the relationships between women and wealth (or lack thereof); audiences are escorted through various spots around the World Financial Center to watch each performance. (There's an article today's Times Metro section.) Another intriguing production is Bird Eye Blue Print, which occurs in an abandoned office suite on the first floor of One World Financial Center. “In these rooms, a mysterious woman known only as ‘the blue dress lady’ has made her home. Join her as she tours you through her realm of disappearing birds, empty phone jacks, false doorways and lost sisters. Is it an office suite? Or an elaborate optical illusion?” (Playwright Jeffrey M. Jones highly recommends the play; he also stresses that while they are limiting the advance reservations for Bird Eye Blue Print, nobody who showed up without a reservation was turned away on the night he attended.) - John Del Signore more ›

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. more ›

It's soggy outside but it's cozy at the bookstores and bars this week. Tonight (6/16), Australian writer Peter Carey is reading from his latest book, Theft: A Love Story, at 192 Books at 7PM. Or, head down to the always cozy Half King tonight for the Spring 2006 edition of The Literary Review, where Lynne Tillman, Craig Mueller, and Cary Goldstein will be reading from their selections in the journal. It starts at 7PM and is free. more ›

Just in case you've left a little space in your weekend for some literary-minded events (and we're sure you have), make it a priority to stop by the 18th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair, a totally free event that's happening all weekend, on Saturday, December 3rd (10am to 6pm) and Sunday, December 4th (11am to 5pm) at the Small Press Center, located in The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen building at 20 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) in Manhattan. more ›

Gothamist doesn't hate it when our friends become successful, and we have no shame when it comes to plugging their endeavors. A month ago, we told you about , a project that started small, but has ballooned to a book deal, television appearances and nationwide tour. more ›

book tour van will be pulling into an alley in Times Square next to The Tank for 3 nights of find-filled reading and song. more ›