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Scott Sanders
A Storyteller’s Wild Life
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Readers love truth that’s stranger than fiction. A Storyteller’s Wild Life delivers it at ninety miles per hour—top down, with an upside-down, antlered deer in the passenger seat.

Yes, that happened.

Scott Sanders has done his time in the storytelling trenches. A favorite on NPR’s Snap Judgment, a five-time winner of The Moth StorySlam, a featured performer on The Moth podcast, and a repeat performer on The Moth Mainstage. A Storyteller’s Wild Life captures that same voice on the page. 

Blending the comic exasperation of Larry David, the emotional vulnerability of Judd Apatow, and the personal storytelling traditions of David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, and Spalding Gray, Scott recounts a life in which things that rarely happen repeatedly happen to him.

Across thirty-two wildly improbable stories he navigates questionable decisions, romantic disasters, dangerous travels, career detours, illness, aging, and the peculiar characters who materialize whenever life abandons the plan.

Think Spalding Gray—with less calm and more lightning.

AMONG THE IMPROBABILITIES

• Two kidnappings. One in China; the other in the former Yugoslavia, where Scott was held in a medieval insane asylum.

• One unforgettable New York Saturday night. At seventeen, Scott found himself cradling Bob Dylan’s head in his lap.

• A career-ending case of canine rivalry. Scott gave up acting after his dog became an acting superstar—and eventually billed the dog for therapy.

• Love during chemo. While undergoing cancer treatment, Scott fell madly in love and had the best time of his life.

• A dangerously bad first impression. Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink blinked wrong—and nearly ruined Scott’s life.

• The breakup song to end all breakup songs. Scott’s first love left him for the man who wrote “You Light Up My Life”—about her. The song became a number-one hit. It did not light up Scott’s life.

Absurd and affecting, chaotic and comic, these stories share one unmistakable sensibility: Scott Sanders is a human lightning rod for experiences that make people say, “You can’t make this up.”

He has thirty-two of them.

At least.

Scott Sanders is available for:

• Interviews

• Podcast and radio appearances

• Live storytelling

• Literary festivals and events

• Speaking engagements

• Workshops

• Media appearances