These are a few of his favorite things:

• P.G. Wodehouse
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Philip K. Dick
• The Twilight Zone
• Groundhog Day
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Big Lebowski
• Richard Brautigan
• the poetry of Stephen Crane
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• House of Games
• Howard Hawks
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Werner Herzog
• Lost Highway
• Warner Brothers cartoons
• W.G. Sebald
• J.S. Bach
• Casablanca
• The Far Side
• Alfred Hitchcock
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• The Melvins

And he is deeply indebted to
Dennis Etchison
and The Mystery & Imagination Bookshop.

Bio

Ben Loory lives in Los Angeles, in a house on top of a hill. He was born in Dover, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Harvard College. In November 2008, his story "Photographs" was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Contest. Since then his fables and tales have appeared online and in print in journals and magazines of all shapes and sizes, ranging from literary to fantasy, humor to horror, young adult to SF to sports-related and more.

His story "The TV" was featured in the April 12, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, and was named a Distinguished Story of the Year in The Best American Short Stories 2011.

His book Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011) is now in its fourth printing. It was chosen as a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club, and was named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Hudson Booksellers retail chain.

As a screenwriter, Ben Loory has worked for Jodie Foster, Alex Proyas (director of Dark City and The Crow), and Mark Johnson (Academy Award-winning producer of Rain Man). He is a member of the Writers Guild of America west, and holds an MFA from the American Film Institute.

Read him interviewed at The New Yorker.

...or here at HTMLGiant.

...or here at CBS News.

...or here at Dark Sky Magazine.

...or here at Smokelong Quarterly.

...or The Emprise Review.

Read his non-fiction at TheNervousBreakdown.

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