Adam Selbst

Adam Selbst is a designer, writer, and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. He has been mugged over 15 times, attacked by a tiger that his mother was taking care of, and once meandered into a foreign war because he wasn’t paying attention. He is not smart. He’s been featured on McSweeney’s, The Moth, RISK!, The Story Collider, The Artichoke, and many other places.

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updated: 05/01/2025

The Top Gun of Getting Mugged

Kevin listens to and comments on a story that Adam Selbst told on an episode of The Artichoke Storytelling Series, about...

05/14/2025

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The Cool Kids

In high school, Adam was friends with a girl who dated an older Bohemian. Adam visited the eccentric boyfriend’s a...

10/26/2021

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My Summer in Showbiz

Young Adam gets a summer job transporting a puppet theater in a bus, but after wrecking into a toll booth, he realizes k...

09/14/2021

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