The Moth

"Passionate . . . brilliant, and quietly addictive. --"The London Guardian"
For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty hair-raising, spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from their extensive archive (15-plus years and 3,000-plus stories strong!). Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small town Georgia, garnered a cult following in New York City, and then rose to national acclaim with the wildly popular podcast and Peabody Award-winning weekly public radio show, The Moth Radio Hour.
Stories include writer Malcolm Gladwell's tale of a wedding toast gone horribly wrong, legendary rapper Darryl "DMC" McDaniel's passionate obsession with a Sarah McLachlan song, a million-dollar hand played by poker champion Annie Duke, and A. E. Hotchner's risking his life in a bullring . . . to amuse his friend Ernest Hemingway. Read about former Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart's panic when he misses Air Force One after a hard night of drinking in Moscow, and Dr. George Lombardi's fight to save Mother Teresa's life.
This will be a cherished read for existing Moth enthusiasts, fans of the featured storytellers, and all who savor well-told, hilarious, and heartbreaking transformative stories.
Since its launch in 1997, the acclaimed not-for-profit organization The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. In 2012, The Moth received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.