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Jake Halpern, a contributor to This American Life,\xa0has written for The New Yorker\xa0and\xa0The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld.\n\n"I test out my stories on my kids. You should be able to tell any story, now matter how complicated, to a seven-year-old in a way that they understand. If you can't, that probably\xa0means that either a) you're telling the story wrong or b) it's not really a story."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter and Bonobos for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\njakehalpern.com\nHalpern on Longform\n[2:00] "The Devil Underground" (Nadja Drost \u2022 The Atavist \u2022 Oct 2014)\n[2:00] Longform App Exclusive: "The Trials of White Boy Rick" (Evan Hughes \u2022 The Atavist \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[3:00] Braving Home (Houghton Mifflin \u2022 2003)\n[4:00] "Jungle Boy" (The New Republic \u2022 2006)\n[14:00] Fame Junkies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \u2022 2006)\n[14:00] Bad Paper (Farrar, Straus and Giroux \u2022 2014)\n[17:00] "Selling the Beat" (New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2004)\n[21:00] "Pay Up" (New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2004)\n[43:00] "Paper Boys" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Aug 2014)\n[43:00] "Magic Words" (This American Life \u2022 Aug 2014)\n[43:00] "Bad Paper, The Debtor Game" (Fusion \u2022 Aug 2014)\n[45:00] The Dormia Trilogy\n[46:00] "The Secret of the Temple" (The New Yorker \u2022 Apr 2012)\n[51:00] "Switched at Birth" (This American Life \u2022 Jul 2008)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices