The Moth: This Is a True Story

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a b "Peabody Awards: Winner 2010 – The Moth, Public Radio Exchange, Atlantic Public Media". PeabodyAwards.com . Retrieved September 19, 2014. 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. 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. The storyteller with the highest score wins the StorySLAM. There are tales of saving lives, cheating death, losing at love, and winning at poker – proving that there’s nothing funnier, more surprising, or moving than other people’s true-life stories.”

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Hoopes, 1982 p. 426: “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...” Vilensky, Mike (May 15, 2013). "The Craft of a Story: Storytelling Is Celebrated at the Moth Ball". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved March 22, 2014.Anderson, Arison (November 25, 2008). "Salman Rushdie and the Legend of the Moth". The Huffington Post . Retrieved February 17, 2009. For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from our extensive archive (eighteen years-plus years and 20,000-plus stories strong). Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small-town Georgia, garnered a cult following in New York City, and then rose to national acclaim with the wildly popular podcast and Peabody Award– winning weekly public radio show The Moth Radio Hour. Hoopes, 1982 p. 33: “The Moth is about a 22-year-old man falling in love with a twelve-year-old girl.” Reeves, Jim. "DAN CHOI SPEAKS AT THE MOTH, PORTLAND OREGON, JAN 18, 2010". Queerlandia.com. Queerlandia . Retrieved March 22, 2014. Martin, Adam (September 14, 2011). "Padma Lakshmi Burps and Other Highlights from The Moth's Food Night". The Atlantic Wire . Retrieved March 22, 2014.

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The 12-year-old Helen appears as a Lolita-like figure, and Dillon’s love recalling Edgar Allan Poe’s attraction to young girls. [23] [24] Sotomayor, Eva (March 7, 2013). "The Moth continues the tradition of storytelling". The Marquette Tribune . Retrieved March 22, 2014. How to Tell a Storyshows us ALL how to rise to the occasion. This is a master class on standing in front of an audience. Bravo!" — Barnes & Noble 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.”Now, with How to Tell a Story, you willuncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers includingMike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Amanda Gorman, Padma Lakshmi, Hasan Minhaj, Tig Notaro, Boots Riley, Molly Ringwald, Krista Tippett, John Turturro, and more. Biographer David Madden lamented that “ The Moth was an effort to let the Great Depression happen to one man [and] might have produced one Cain’s finest novels; but certain autobiographical elements entered into his conception and delayed the novel’s thrust into the depression material.” [19] Theme [ edit ]