Episode 3 — Emma Straub

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2011

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0	This episode of other people is brought to you by Penguin Books, publisher of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Lorry.
0:08.0	It's a story collection. It's filled with adult fables. These are short. These are really short. They're oddly haunting.
0:14.6	They're dreamlike. They're magical. They will move you in unexpected ways. There's a story involving an octopus.
0:22.4	There's a story involving Bigfoot.
0:25.3	There's even a story in the book that's not supposed to be in the book.
0:26.5	It's called the TV.
0:28.9	It was originally published in The New Yorker.
0:32.3	This is stories for nighttime and some for the day.
0:34.3	Kirkus Reviews calls it, quote,
0:39.1	one of a kind, a thoroughly entertaining antidote to rigid thinking and excessive seriousness, end quote.
0:41.5	Who doesn't need that?
0:42.6	Who doesn't need an antidote to rigid thinking and excessive seriousness?
0:47.0	Stories for nighttime and some for the day.
0:49.6	It's available now by Ben Lurie.
0:51.8	Go and get it.
0:52.5	It's a book.
0:53.4	Oh my God.
0:56.0	You are not alone.
0:58.3	You have found other people.
1:01.8	You and I have a friend in common.
1:04.2	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:07.0	I think it's really beautiful.
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