Tall Tales

A number of people have asked about a story I told at the Moth about my early days in the newspaper business.

     The Moth is a weird and wonderful club in New York City founded a few years ago by George Green, who wanted to recreate the late-night story-telling sessions of his childhood in Georgia. Every few weeks, a bunch of people get together in a dark and boozy room somewhere in Manhattan and try and outdo each other.  I told a Moth story several years ago, and last month it was picked up by the NPR show This American Life. (You can find it  here)

     There is a disclaimer at the end of the This American Life broadcast, to the effect that the Moth is a place where "people come to tell both true stories and occasional tall tales." As I think should be obvious if you listen to it, my story definitely belongs to the "tall tale" category.  I hope you enjoy it.  But please do so with a rather large grain of salt. 

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Rather interesting. How can you gage the ripple effect on something, if you are a fairly recognized writer of fictional truths? If you suddenly wake up and go hay-wire, temporarily spouting whatever pops into your brain, is there someone nearby with a digital recorder for this event? And who believes it wasn't monkeyed with by Audioshop 2.0? As the man says, salt liberally applied to almost anything we read, and even then it doesn't stop up from creating an intended effect with our imaginations. No, I don't think this issue will matter much in the post-Internet age to come soon to generation behind us. Regards from Japan. See you soon.

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Did you happen to see the news about Alexei Cherepanov? There's an article about it here (http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3642466). You discussed him a while back during one of your presentations with the New Yorker.

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