With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television & radio before penny paperbacks & mass literacy people would gather on porches on the steps outside their homes & tell stories The storytellers knew their craft & bewitched listeners would sit & listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art helping storytellers
- old hands & novices alike
- hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events The very best of these stories are collected here whether it's Bill Clinton's hell-raising press secretary or a leading geneticist with a family secret; a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa's bedside or a film director saving her father's Chinatown store from money-grabbing developers; the Sultan of Brunei's concubine or a friend of Hemingway's who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter these eccentric pitch-perfect stories
- all amazingly true
- range from the poignant to the downright hilarious