Hey New York! Our Artistic Director Catherine Burns is joining folks from This American Life and The Truth this Monday, June 24th for a panel discussion on audio storytelling. Plus Mexican food and margaritas.
Find out more over at Ideasmyth!
This week’s podcast: A social worker is caught in the middle of a fight, and a man makes a new friend in an unexpected way.
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This past week on The Moth Radio Hour: A young woman meets her brother for the first time at their father’s funeral, a professional blackjack player faces down his gambling demons, and Colin Quinn (Weekend Update, SNL) is hired to do comedy for Robert DeNiro’s birthday party…and bombs.
I like telling the story of life better than I do living it.
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Spalding Gray (via coatofmarmoset) No lie, Spalding Gray is kind of a major hero of ours. We even posthumously gave him The Moth Award, honoring him for his storytelling skills, a few years ago. |
![This week’s podcast: An undertaker deals with a problematic client.
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Storytelling is the tool that human beings have to trigger empathy.
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Ryan Coogler - first-time writer/director of the Sundance and Cannes Award-winning film FRUITVALE STATION. (via filmfestivallife) Amen! |
The Moth can trace its origins to nights on Wanda Bullard’s porch where she and her friends (including our founder George Dawes Green) would drink bourbon and tell stories into the night.
When George moved to New York and got this whole big crazy storytelling thing started, he made sure to invite Wanda to tell one of her amazing stories.
