{"product_id":"stories-for-nighttime-and-some-for-the-day-9780143119500","title":"Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This guy can write \" --Ray Bradbury\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eStories for Nighttime and Some for the Day\u003c\/i\u003e draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContains 40 stories, including \"The Duck,\" \"The Man and the Moose,\" and \"Death and the Fruits of the Tree,\" as heard on NPR's \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Book,\" as heard on \u003ci\u003eSelected Shorts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"The TV,\" as published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Loory\u003c\/b\u003e's fables and tales have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eREAD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eTales of Falling and Flying\u003c\/i\u003e and a picture book for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Baseball Player and the Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Harvard University and the American Film Institute MFA program in screenwriting, Loory lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213019742482,"sku":"9780143119500","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89d45ffa-84cc-43b6-8976-bb5425cdd7ec.jpg?v=1745357064","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stories-for-nighttime-and-some-for-the-day-9780143119500","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}