Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has also given several talks at Moth events. One story was recently featured on the Moth Radio Hour.
In the introduction to the story, Gopnik reflects about how telling stories on stage has affected his writing:
"I sensed in myself that I had become in some ways, and doubtless still am in every way, an unduly fancy writer. That the curlicues and ornamentation of erudition had begun to drown out my ability to simply tell a tale about what had happened. But I think writing is a business of perfection. You want every sentence to be as perfectly polished as you can possibly make it. Every sentence should glow and shine, have its own little balance and structure and charm. A story is not like that. A story can tolerate a lot of rough stuff in the course of it being related as long as what is being related is significant. You can’t write that way. Readers are unforgiving of imperfection. But don’t you think listeners are totally unforgiving of insincerity."
A link to the story: http://www.prx.org/pieces/103186-1107-freddy-hubbard-charlie-ravioli-and-the-monk
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