- Paperback: 170 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (18 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595396895
- ISBN-13: 978-0595396894
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
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Praise for Story 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 Salon is 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 house Story Salon now reaches the globe through Podcasting, publishing, and recordings.
The rules of the Story Salon haven'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 the Salon one of the most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozen solo theater works have been developed at Story Salon, as well as a CD of stories, and several books.
"Live storytelling is a unique art form," says Story Salon founder, 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 in Big Book of Stories are more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors at Story 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.com
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The writer/performers of Story Salon include actors, comedians, musicians, photographers, war correspondents, students, life coaches, former clowns, recovering attorneys, one admitted juggler, an international fashion model, several husbands and wives, and one mother and daughter as well as American Comedy Award-winning comedian/writer Cathy Ladman, Emmy Award winning writer Joseph Dougherty, and Story Salon?s producers: Beverly Mickins, innovative Podcaster Lance Anderson, and popular writer/comedian Dan Farren.
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Highly recommend., 11 Aug 2006
By Nan Carp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Story Salon Big Book of Stories: The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue (Paperback)
I loved it. I couldn't put it down. I related so much to so many of the stories. If you are human you will really enjoy it.
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Amazing Read!, 6 Aug 2006
By Billy Riley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Story Salon Big Book of Stories: The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue (Paperback)
I read this book in one sitting it was so great. It was funny and touching and a lot like the stories you hear on Ira Glass' show. Big recommend!
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Great Storytelling!, 16 Aug 2006
By L. HaLevy "avid reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Story Salon Big Book of Stories: The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue (Paperback)
Great, fresh, funny and touching stories of life in modern times. Relationships, show business, family, memoir, rants -- it's amazing how such short stories (none over 4 pages) can pack such a wallop. Keenly observed, all-too-human tales make for a terrific ride. Wonderful for avid readers AND those of short attention span. Heck, keep a copy in the loo; just don't expect the reader to come out of there any time soon... <g>!
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