Ever wonder how The Moth got it’s start?
Every day between now and closing, we’re going to be featuring something super cool that you can bid on in our auction. Today, storyteller and NPR host Ophira Eisenberg (of Ask Me Another) comes to your book club!
Ophira Eisenberg wears many hats: a brilliant stand-up comedian, a regular host and storyteller at The Moth, and host of NPR’s quiz-showAsk Me Another. Now she can add writer to that list with her debut book,Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way To Monogamy.
Ophira will join your book club and lead the discussion of her acclaimed memoir. She will even provide the books and sign them with a dirty joke!
Every day between now and when it closes, we’re going to be featuring one super cool item that you can bid on in this year’s Moth Ball Auction! Today, change your view of the universe over lunch with Professor Brian Greene.
Discuss string theory with New York Times bestselling author Brian Greene over lunch at Hangawi in New York City.
String theory could provide us with a unified theory of all forces and all matter. Unfortunately it is also rather tricky for mere mortals to understand. Fear not, because help is at hand! Brian Greene, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University, has been recognized with a Peabody Award and many other prizes for his successful popularization of science.
We’ll ask you for the CliffsNotes later!
Bidding is open until May 16th!
[Original photo by wylieconlon on Flickr]
Ever want to get learn chess from a grandmaster? Or get tea with Neil Gaiman? Or even cohost The Moth podcast with Dan Kennedy?
Now’s your chance - our Moth Ball Online Auction is live! Bidding will close on May 16th… and good luck!
Holy cow! Congratulations to 12-year-old Ruby, who won the StorySLAM last night at Housing Works Bookstore in New York. For the record, she’s both the one of the youngest people to tell a story at The Moth AND the youngest SLAMpion ever.
Good job, Ruby! Can’t wait to hear you at the GrandSLAM!
It’s Moth Ball time, baby!
That’s right, folks - our annual storytelling show/award ceremony/dance party, The Moth Ball, is upon us! This year, inspired by the music of Fats Waller, we’re getting the joint jumpin’ with stories about Stirring It Up. Garrison Keillor is hosting, writers Adam Gopnik and Richard Price are telling stories, and documentarian Albert Maysles will be on honored with the 2013 Moth Award.
And, of course, we’ll be dancing our butts off.
Find out more details at TheMoth.org. Hope to see you there! It’s gonna be fun, y’all.
Ever wonder what it’s like to tell a story on The Moth Mainstage? Check out this series from THNKR on The Moth and the art of storytelling to find out!
OMG. Did you hear that amazing story over the weekend on The Moth Radio Hour?
Oh no, you missed it? Don’t worry. Every Tuesday we put the stories from the last week’s episode of The Moth Radio Hour up for streaming on our website. You can find last week’s stories - and every story that’s ever been on the radio show - on TheMoth.org.
