The Moth

An extraordinary pub in southern England becomes the crate for a lifelong dedication to music. Joe Jackson is a musician, singer, and songwriter, who is credited with brining New Wave to America.

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A writer’s uptown friends won’t believe her dating adventure with a New York City fire fighter, but in the end a NYFD t-shirt proves them wrong. Katherine Russell Rich lives in Manhattan. Her second book “Dreaming in Hindi: Coming awake in another language” will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in July.

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Thanksgiving Day Special: When Jeffery’s dad moves their citified family to a working farm, chaos ensues. Jeffrey Rudell is a writer, artist and designer living in New York City.

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This week we feature stories by the competitors in our first East Coast vs. West Coast National SLAM-Off, which took place last week in New York. Jim O’Grady is a research director at the Center for an Urban Future, a think tank in Lower Manhattan and the author of “Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor” and co-author of “Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan”. Josh Cereghino is a writer who lives in Los Angeles, travels extensively and surfs as much as possible.

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Keillor recounts the extraordinary events that turned him to storytelling. Garrison Keillor is the author of numerous books, and the creator, host and writer of the shows “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac”, both heard on public radio stations across the country.

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Borowitz boils his experience of being a writer for an 80’s TV show down to just the facts. Andy Borowitz is a comedian, writer and creator of the award-winning satire site, BorowitzReport.com.

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Behind the scenes stories of life in the Clinton White House from the former Press Secretary. Joe Lockhart served as Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton and is currently a partner at the Glover Park Group, which specializes in media relations and political strategy.

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A chance meeting unites two women with bad boyfriends and bad habits. Jenifer Hixson is a producer and director who lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

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Overwhelmed by the pressures of modern life, AJ decides to outsource his personal life to India. A.J. Jacobs is an editor at large at Esquire Magazine, and the author of the New York Times Bestsellers ‘The Know it All’ and ‘The Year of Living Biblically’.

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Estranged for 20 years, Braly’s family is brought together by his sister’s last wishes. James Braly is a writer and performer who’s one man show ‘LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION’, was featured Off-Broadway and at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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