Story Salon Big Book of Stories The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue

Praise forStory Salon ?Gemstones of narrative. Something new, funny, astonishing.' ?Los Angeles Daily News ?Tales tall, tragic, and tantalizing.' ?Sunset Magazine ?Stories from all walks and talks of life. Tales of yore and ones that make you scream for more'those that will delight with insight while moving an audience from laughter to tears.' ?Studio City Sun Story Salonis Los Angeles's longest running storytelling venue. What began as an alternative to stand-up clubs and self-conscious performance spaces has been challenging performers and audiences for more than a decade. Created in a North Hollywood coffee houseStory Salonnow reaches the globe through Podcasting, publishing, and recordings. The rules of theStory Salonhaven't changed since it started: Five to seven minutes of original material performed by the author. The result is a unique blend of observation, memoir and comment that makes theSalonone of the most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozen solo theater works have been developed atStory Salon,as well as a CD of stories, and several books. ?Live storytelling is a unique art form,? saysStory Salonfounder, writer/actor/comedian Beverly Mickins. ?Words spoken aloud paint pictures capable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion. People have been telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about the whole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life. Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human.' Collected here for the first time inBig Book of Storiesare more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors atStory Salon. It's an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog stories that once opened is impossible to shut. Learn more at www.storysalon.comDougherty, Joseph is the author of 'Story Salon Big Book of Stories The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595396894 and ISBN 0595396895.