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Jack Hitt: Making Up the Truth

Jack Hitt: Making Up the Truth

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November 3rd: Lewis Lapham (Lapham's Quarterly)
November 11: Nick Thompson (New Yorker)
November 17: Catherine Burns (The Moth)


Making Up the Truth
is the new solo show from Peabody Award-winning journalist and This American Life regular Jack Hitt, featuring Hitt's singular wit told through extravagant, almost unbelievable, true tales-from his childhood neighbor's sex change operation, to his NYC apartment super with a deadly secret identity. Making Up the Truth weaves these and other stories together with the latest findings in contemporary brain science as Jack tries to answer the question, "Why do these things always happen to me?" What he discovers is not dry theory but another unbelievable story-this time about all of us and the world of uncanny wonders that lies just beyond our brain's notice.

Written and performed by Jack Hitt
Directed by Jessica Bauman
Produced by Aaron Louis in association with New Feet Productions & ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

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