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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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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 graduate of Harvard and the American Film Institute, Loory lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy and I'm in Los Angeles. It's nice to be with you. It is Friday and it is time for another flashback episode where I dig into the Other people archives and share an outtake from an
0:22.0	episode out of the past. Today I'm going to be sharing an outtake from episode 29.
0:29.1	My conversation with author Ben Lurie. It first aired on December 25th, 2011.
0:39.1	Ben Lurie is the author of two story collections.
0:42.2	One is called Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day,
0:47.5	and the second one is called Tales of Falling and Flying.
0:52.3	Ben is also the author of a picture book for children called the baseball
0:56.4	player and the walrus. Over the years, his stories have appeared in a variety of publications,
1:02.3	including The New Yorker magazine, Tin House, Reed Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review. His stories have
1:09.5	been heard on This American Life and selected shorts,
1:14.3	performed live at Word Theater in Los Angeles and London, and translated into many languages.
1:21.2	Ben Laurie lives here in Los Angeles, and he is an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers program.
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