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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Ben Loory on Needles, Doctors, Nighttime, The Sun, Endings, Dennis Etchison, Screenwriting, Growing Up Without a TV, Writing Mathematically, and The Twilight Zone
Description: In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 29, my conversation with author Ben Loory. It first aired on December 25, 2011.Loory is the author of the story collections Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review; been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts; performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London; and translated into many languages, including Japanese, Farsi, Arabic, and Indonesian. A graduat...