2014 Moth Ball with Zadie Smith, Piper Kerman, Steve the Cop & more

Tickets have just gone on sale for this year’s Moth Ball – May 13 at Capitale. It’ll be a great night of dinner, dancing & storytelling, and is always one of NYC’s most fun events of the year.

Simon Doonan will host and Zadie Smith will receive this year’s Moth Award, which honors the art of the raconteur and has been won in the past by, among others, Martin Scorsese, Salman Rushdie, Anna Deavere Smith & Spaulding Gray.

Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, & ex-NYPD Detective, Steve “The Cop” Osborne will tell new stories live and without notes.

A silent auction will feature items including tea with Neil Gaiman, VIP tickets and a meet and greet with NPR’s Peter Sagal and the Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me staff; Dinner with The New Yorker‘s Adam Gopnik, Lunch with physicist Brian Greene including a one-on-one explanation of string theory, A tour of the Jim Beam Distillery with Jim Beam’s great grandson, and more!

Tickets and more information are available here. See you there!