Dispatches from the Moth
Explore interviews, storytelling tips, playlists and other Mothy fun curated by our staff and community.
Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 28, 2013
by Jenifer Hixson, Senior Producer
Houston and New Orleans story lovers and storytellers, heads up! The Moth StorySLAM, our open mic celebration of local stories is taking root in Texas and Louisiana. Come to listen or come to share… hopefully both!
The Moth StorySLAM is a showcase for true stories from every day folks. Heroes and hell-raisers, students, grandpas, insurance agents and truck drivers–people from all corners are welcome. Ex-cons, nurses, tax lawyers, bakers, barbacks or bee keepers. Everyone is...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Aug 07, 2013
by The Moth Staff
Dear Moth Friends,
We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of the first-ever Moth book: The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hyperion)
Preface by Adam Gopnik, foreward by George Dawes Green, edited and with an introduction by Catherine Burns
For the first time in print, The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from our archive. The same magic you’ve witnessed on the stage, now available in our very first book. (The next best thing to having fifty cool...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: May 07, 2013
by The Moth Staff
The Moth is true stories, told live! If you’ve just discovered our site, you can find out about us here.
The Moth Presents: SWITCHING GEARS Join The Moth and Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s celebration of bicycles, beer and all manner of sustainable folly, for a day of merriment that offers music, a bicycle parade, artistic spectacles and other tantalizing creative endeavors… including a very rare, midday, broad-daylight Moth show. Come gather round! We’ll feature four stories...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Apr 08, 2013
by Joan D. Firestone, Executive Director
“The Joint Is Jumpin”, The Moth Ball 2013 is set against the back-drop of that history and the lyric from Honeysuckle Rose, one of Fats’ best known songs “So Sweet When You Stir It Up” inspired the theme of the evening’s Moth’s stories: Stirring It Up.
So mark May 14th on your calendars! A fun and festive evening, hosted by the legendary Garrison Keillor, awaits you. It will feature new stories from Adam Gopnik, Richard Price and Satori Shakoor; our popular national GrandSLAM winners;...
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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Feb 05, 2013
by Joan D. Firestone, Executive Director
The Board and staff of The Moth join New Yorkers in mourning the loss of Mayor Ed Koch, a giant political leader and devoted humanist who turned personal ideas and ideals into goals and then accomplishments to benefit all New Yorkers.
Determined and relentless in his governing style, Mayor Koch was capable of extraordinary sensitivity. I experienced first-hand his concern for New York’s youth. As he waited his turn as storyteller at The Moth’s New York Stories show, that featured...
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