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My Life in Stories: A Guided Journal from The Moth
There’s a great story in all of us. What’s yours? From the creative minds of The Moth comes My Life in Stories. This keepsake journal will help you recall memorable moments, invite you to make connections, and inspire you to reflect on how you’ve changed over time. With over 150 insightful prompts, The Moth’s storytelling experts help you not only identify important milestones and details from your life, but also shape them into stories.
New York Times Bestseller
A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go
An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life’s transitions. The Moth’s fifth book features stories by Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. Curated by the creative minds at The Moth, the selected stories have been adapted to the page while preserving the raw energy of the live, onstage telling. Readers will encounter moments heartbreaking, healing, and hilarious. A Point of Beauty reminds us that, if we look closely enough, we can find real beauty in moments when our lives change forever — for better or for worse.
New York Times Bestseller
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling
You are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an unforgettable story. Whether your goal is to deliver the perfect wedding toast, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, The Moth is here to help. For more than twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life — including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winners, high school students, dental hygienists, and a retired pickpocket — to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted millions of listeners across the globe. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth also inspires thousands of people to share their stories each year. Now, withHow to Tell a Story, The Moth will help you uncover and craft your own unique stories. In this book, the Moth team reveals the secrets of their time-honed process and uses examples from beloved Moth storytellers Elizabeth Gilbert, Mike Birbiglia, Padma Laksmi, Rosanne Cash, John Turturro, and more. Filled with empowering, easy-to-follow tips, How to Tell a Story will help you to unleash the power of storytelling in your life. How to Tell a Story is also available in paperback, featuring, exclusive material, including story prompts to get you started and ideas for hosting your own Moth-style gathering, along with a book club guide, and empowering, easy-to-follow tips for crafting stories that forge lasting bonds with friends, family, and colleagues alike.
A Game to Spark Creativity and Connection
A Game of Storytelling
The Moth’s first-ever interactive card deck uses true stories to encourage lively conversations, spark creativity, and improve your public speaking abilities. Since 1997, The Moth has engaged thousands of fans through their celebrated live shows, workshops, The Moth Radio Hour, and The Moth Podcast. A Game of Storytelling features 100 themes — including Love Hurts, Mama Rules, Busted, Fuel to the Fire, Lifelines, Hot Mess, Chemistry, Duped, and many more — and over 300 prompts to spark your stories. With multiple ways to play, you can use these cards with friends, family, colleagues, classmates, and roommates to connect and revel in the things that make you laugh, cry, think deeply, and reimagine the world.
New York Times Bestseller
Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
From the storytelling phenomenon The Moth comes a collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the courage to face the impossible, drawn from the very best ever told on their stages. With stories carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth and adapted from the stage to the page, Occasional Magic features voices familiar and new. Alongside Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, and Wang Ping, storytellers from around the world share times when, in the face of challenging situations, they found moments of beauty, wonder, and clarity, shedding light on their lives and helping them find a path forward.
“Wonderful,” Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include Tig Notaro, John Turturro, and Meg Wolitzer, as well as a hip hop “one hit wonder,” an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, and a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill’s “secret army” during World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory — and how their lives were changed forever by what they found there. Featuring more than 40 of the best stories told on Moth stages around the world, this anthology will make a great gift for story lovers everywhere.
The Moth’s First Storytellers
50 True Stories
For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from its extensive archive. 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. Stories include: writer Malcolm Gladwell’s wedding toast gone horribly awry; legendary rapper Darryl “DMC” McDaniels’ obsession with a Sarah McLachlan song; poker champion Annie Duke’s two-million-dollar hand; and A. E. Hotchner’s death-defying stint in a bullring … with his friend Ernest Hemingway. 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. George Lombardi’s fight to save Mother Teresa’s life. This will be a beloved read for existing Moth enthusiasts, fans of the featured storytellers, and all who savor well-told, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories.