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Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

This is Ernest Hemingway’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Stephen Fry: Language

Stephen Fry hates grammar nazis.

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Matt Diffee, Drew Dernavich & Zach Kanin: At Gel 2011

New Yorker cartoonists Matt Diffee, Drew Dernavich, and Zach Kanin present some of their cartoons while drawing cartoons on stage. New Yorker cartoonists Diffee, Dernavich, & Kanin at Gel 2011 from...

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David Foster Wallace: This is Water

This speech at the 2005 Kenyon College commencement ceremony given by David Foster Wallace instantaneously made it to my Top Ten list of commencements addresses. Thanks to Jan for pointing out this...

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Andrew Solomon: Notes on an Exorcism

Andrew Solomon tells at The Moth how he was part of an excorcism in Africa.

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Taylor Mali: Like you know

Another great piece from Taylor Mali.

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Shane Koyczan: “To This Day”… for the bullied and beautiful

Shane Koyczan tells a story of being bullied.

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Neil Hilborn: OCD

Neil Hilborn at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Madison, WI.

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Carrie Fisher: Tribute to Harrison Ford at the AFI Life Achievement Award

Carrie Fisher at the 28th AFI Life Achievement Award in 2000.

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Poet Ali: The most important language you will ever learn

Poet Ali asks if you speak that language at TEDxOrangeCoast.

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