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b'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'