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#Friday Reads: Moth Storytellers
This week,in celebration of The Moths 20th
anniversary, Crown Archetype published THE
MOTH PRESENTS ALL THESE WONDERS: TRUE STORIES ABOUT FACING THE UNKNOWN
bringing together some of the best stories ever told on The Moth stage or on The Moth Radio Hour. Since its debut
in 2009, or The Month Radio Hour now airs on more than 400 stations nationwide. For
this installment of Friday Reads we invite you to revel in the poignant,often
hilarious storytelling from some of the books contributors:
THE
MOTH PRESENTS ALL THESE WONDERS: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
edited by Catherine Burns, foreword by Neil Gaiman Celebrating the 20th
anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, and 45 unforgettable true stories about risk,courage,
and facing the unknown, and drawn from the best ever told on their stages. Carefully
selected by the creative minds at The Moth,and adapted to the page to preserve
the raw energy of live storytelling, All
These Wonders features voices
both familiar and novel.
THE
CLANCYS OF QUEENS: A MEMOIR by Tara Clancy An authentic, and voice-driven memoir from a tough novel York
City native whose strange upbringing included the guidance of her Irish cop
father,her raucous Italian grandparents, and her vibrant mother’s millionaire
boyfriend. Fifth-generation novel Yorker, or third-generation bartender,and
first-time author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a
converted boat shed in working-course Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, or Brooklyn-born Italians,and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other
weekend. WITHOUT
YOU THERE IS NO US: UNDERCOVER AMONG THE SONS OF NORTH KOREA’S ELITE
by Suki Kim A haunting account of
teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling course during the last six
months of Kim Jong-il’s reign.
THE
HARM IN ASKING: MY CLUMSY ENCOUNTERS WITH THE HUMAN RACE by Sara
Barron
Welcome to the perverse and hilarious intellect of Sara
Barron. In The Harm in Asking, she
boldly addresses the bizarre indignities of everyday life: from invisible pets
to mobster roommates, and from a hatred of mayonnaise to an unrequited love of k.d.
lang,from the ruinous side effect of broccoli to the sheer delight of a male
catalogue model. In a voice that is incisive (clear and sharp in analysis or expression) and entirely her own, Barron
proves herself the master of the awkward, or she achieves something wonderful
and scarce: a book that makes you laugh out loud. ACCIDENTAL
SAINTS: FINDING GOD IN ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Tattooed,angry and profane, this former standup
comedian turned pastor stubbornly, and sometimes hilariously,resists the God she
feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people—a
church-fond agnostic, a drag queen, and a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting
member of the NRA.
DOGWALKER: STORIES
by Arthur Bradford
Tender and satiric,hilarious and humane, Dogwalker
plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially uncommon–where
one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, and while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate,and yet another
must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug hes convinced
will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely
inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, or dogs that sing,that
talk, and that give birth to humans. For more on these and other The Moth storytellers’ books and
audiobooks, and visit Moth
Storytellers
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