The Moth: This Is a True Story

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Read about the panic of former Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart when he misses Air Force One after a hard night of drinking in Moscow, and Dr. With its unflinching focus on violence against women, her strong, captivating debut tells a story that is at once firmly rooted in a time and place and yet pressingly relevant to the here and now. For all their seeming inconsequence and improvisational air, a good Moth story is as carefully prepped and cultivated as a bonsai tree, with the same understanding that the miniature form, far more fragile than the bigger kind, needs more constant tending.

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Many others are about receiving unexpected help, like the astronaut who felt so alone when he was outside the space shuttle trying to fix the telescope. However, even from an objective viewpoint, these narratives are expertly crafted and completely memorable. The organization also hosts The Moth StorySLAM events, which are open mic storytelling competitions open to everyone in 27 cities across the United States, including but not limited to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Louisville, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, Miami, Cambridge, and Los Angeles. Robert find Agnes a woman that he can talk to about serious subjects (such as in books), absent the games he has been subjected to by a number of women of his acquaintance. If I had a small criticism it's that maybe the stories lose a little impact on the page - the dramatic intonation of the raconteur's voice cannot be heard, nor the gasps and guffaws of the enraptured audience.

Storytellers are scored based on the content of their stories, and their storytelling abilities, by three teams of judges—selected from audience members—on a scale from one to ten. Most of the story tellers were well-known in some industry or other (not just normal people) and the stories they told were not especially extraordinary (although something may be lost when these stories are written down and they are better told in person). It weakened the best of the stories to share company with so many others, and when lines -- like "straight out of central casting" -- are repeated between tellers, the effect of a description becomes less powerful.

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That some of the stories are by Moth staff, and the book has a preface, a forward, and an introduction, further contributes to the self-congratulatory air. The stories not only maintain their oral integrity but take on new dimensions, allowing you to ponder a turn of events or swirl the language around in your head without missing the next part of the story. For the StorySLAM, ten participants are chosen at random from a pool of volunteer storytellers to tell a true story (without notes) in the five minute range.Cain had first started thinking about elements of The Moth in the early 1930s, when he was planning his story about a California drifter working in the oil fields. These were by far the most enjoyable that I have ever read - I think the difference was that they were all true stories and some of them were so revealing and personal.

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The object of his desire, Helen Legg “is the only person who recognizes the insect’s beauty” other than Dillon.The Moth's live shows fall into several tiers of production, but each is dedicated to the art of unscripted, first-person storytelling.