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	Foundry Claire Harris
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LONG STORY SHORT

Margot Leitman

The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need

IThis is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program, Margot Leitman.

n the last few years, storytelling has become a huge part of the zeitgeist, thanks to “The Moth” and “This American Life,” the ubiquity of podcasts, and even Ted Talks. Like its companion art forms, storytelling follows a specific set of rules, but there are numerous ways to improve the content, structure, emotional impact, and delivery. Margot Leitman’s LONG STORY SHORT will show you how, through a mix of fun personal anecdotes, relatable examples, and practical exercises (and possibly charts and diagrams, as well).

As for author’s bona-fides, Margot founded the storytelling program at UCB and is a five-time winner of the Moth and a winner of the Moth Grandslam, achieving the series’ first ever score of a perfect ten. She has performed on “Best Week Ever” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” and her stories have been featured on the Moth Podcast, RISK, and NPR’s “Good Food,” “Unfictional” and “Strangers.” She’s held many storytelling workshops at corporations, theaters, and comedy groups on both coasts.

Available products
Book Published 2015-10-20 by Sasquatch Books
Book Published 2015-10-20 by Sasquatch Books

Comments

Margot Leitman is hilarious and vulnerable and real. In Long Story Short, she teaches us, with great candor and clarity, how storytelling works. This book is essential—a reminder that the world would be a better place if everyone knew how to tell a good story.

Margot Leitman is not only an incredibly skilled and entertaining storyteller but also a gifted teacher. She is the person you most want next to you around a campfire, at a grungy bar, or cheering you on at your first PowerPoint presentation. In Long Story Short, Margot expertly guides readers through the ins and outs of a craft essential to all who seek to connect more deeply with the world around them.

When you watch Margot Leitman telling stories onstage, you find yourself laughing hysterically and somehow feeling less alone in a world where it seems everyone else got some kind of instruction manual. And now she's literally gone and given you an instruction manual. She's a former hypochondriac, obsessed with game shows, and a superfan of hair metal—and she'll make you realize your own qualifications and credentials in no time. In a world of experts, you've found an insightful book about storytelling from an actual human.

Margot Leitman is a rare thing: she's a performer, a writer, and—in this book—the teacher you secretly have a crush on. Sharp as hell, Leitman teaches you how to tell your own story. Through sharing her process, telling personal stories, and giving practical exercises, she will give you the tools and confidence you need to share your story with the world.

Whether you know it or not, there are great stories inside of you, and Margot Leitman is the perfect person to help you find them and squeeze every drop of humor and emotion out of them when you do. Long story short, she rules. Buy this book.

For our improv show ASSSSCAT the success of the performance hinges on how meaty the story is that the monologist gives us. Margot always delivers a nice thick cut of filet mignon.

Margot Leitman and Michael Jordan are both naturally good at storytelling/basketball. But they're not content to coast on their natural abilities; they also work at their craft/dunks. But where they differ is that Michael Jordan has retired and Margot Leitman continues to hone her formidable skills on the word processor/court. Long Story Short shows her at the top of her game/game.