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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Ben Loory (Author) (edit contributors)

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"If Mother Goose and Philip K. Dick had a love child, and Richard Brautigan raised him in Watermelon Sugar, he might write stories like Ben Loory." -Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here

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Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.

"Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day is that rare find–a book that excites the reader. These tales are hilarious and vertiginous in the calmly absurd manner of Lydia Davis, Jack Handey and Etgar Keret. With his first book, Ben Loory proves he's already a master of the sleight of hand."

–Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster

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  • “You should wonder harder, the man's wife says. It would make you a happier person.”

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The woman returns from the store with an armload of books.

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The Book
The Swimming Pool
The Tunnel
The Crown
The Man who went to China
The octopus
The Path
The Hunter's Head
The Duck
The Well
The Shadow
The TV and Winston Churchill
Death and the fruits of the tree
UFO: a love story
The hat
The magic pig
Bigfoot
The shield
The martian
The little girl and the balloon
The poet
The rope and the sea
The knife act
The fish in the teapot
The girl in the storm
The afterlife is what you leave behind
The tree
The sea monster
The man and the moose
The end of it all
On the way down: a a story for Ray Bradbury
The house on the cliff and the sea
The snake in the throat
The graveyard
The ferris wheel
Photographs
The walk that replaced understanding
The woman and the basebent
Hadley
The TV

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  1. Ben Loory (Author)

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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Publication Date: July 26, 2011
ISBN: 978-0143119500
Page Count: 244

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  • This American Life: Episode 457 - What I Did for Love: In Act Three of this This American Life #457: "Ben Loory wrote and tells this story, which begins with a duck falling in love with a rock. It's in his collection Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day. (8 minutes)"

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