Carter Edwards: Brontosaurus Claus
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Not even the truth about Santa Claus and George Washington could prepare Carter Edwards for what happened to Brontosaurus. Carter Edwards' work has appeared in Mathematics Magazine, Hobart, The New York Times, and others. His debut collection of fiction, The Aversive Clause, won the 2011 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. His debut collection of poetry, From The Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes, was released last summer, also from Black Lawrence Press. He is a 2014 Poetry Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts, attended the graduate writing program at The New School in New York and lives in Brooklyn.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.9 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.6 | It felt... |
| 0:07.6 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:39.9 | Quick note, we have events coming up in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, not Cambridge United Kingdom yet, and New York City. Go to storycollider.org for more info. This week's story is from Carter Edwards. Carter was the very first person we asked |
| 0:45.7 | to be on this show way back in the day. He returned for a five-year anniversary show, May |
| 0:50.2 | 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 1:05.2 | So when I was five and a half, and I'm going to say five and a half very specifically, |
| 1:13.6 | because when you are five and a half, you count the months, like they are these like electric turds that you just cannot wait to get rid of. Like every single month is the most important thing just to throw away from |
| 1:20.6 | yourself as hard as you possibly can. So I was five and a half and it was Christmas. |
| 1:26.6 | And I was spending, my older sister and I were spending |
| 1:31.9 | Christmas for the first time with my newly divorced father, because my father and mother had separated |
| 1:38.2 | when I was three and three quarters. And we were spending it for the first time in his apartment |
| 1:44.0 | in Haverall, Massachusetts. |
| 1:45.2 | If you've never been to Haverill, Massachusetts, it's exactly like every other town in |
| 1:49.3 | northern Massachusetts. |
| 1:50.9 | If you've never been to any town in northern Massachusetts, don't bother. |
| 1:54.9 | It is basically just apple orchards and pig farms and a gnawing, longing sense of depression and bitterness over the |
| 2:03.2 | failed textile industry that ended in the early 1900s. |
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