of Soda & his Million Piece Band, in which he played mandolin and baritone saxophone. Their music was featured in the soundtrack for the film Waitress (2007), directed by Adrienne Shelly. Works Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (2011) The Baseball Player and the Walrus (2015) Tales of Falling and Flying (2017) References External links Ben Loory's author website Ben Loory's facebook author page The New Yorker: Book Bench Kirkus Reviews: Starred Review of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day Kirkus Reviews: Starred Review of Tales of Falling and Flying AV Club Review: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day Then Disappear & Then Rise Again: An Interview with Ben Loory Ben Loory reading his story "The Dodo" Ben Loory on This American Life Ben Loory on The Leonard Lopate Show (audio interview) 1971 births 21st-century American short story writers American male writers Harvard University alumni Living people People from Dover, New Jersey Writers from New Jersey