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    Author T.C. Boyle on “I Walk Between the Raindrops”

    Writer and Montecito resident T.C. Boyle is no stranger to natural disasters, both in his writing and in real life.

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    By Jonathan Bastian • Aug 18, 2018 • 1 min read

    Writer and Montecito resident T.C. Boyle is no stranger to natural disasters, both in his writing and in real life. His latest piece for the New Yorker, I Walk Between the Raindrops, is narrated by a man who has just emerged unscathed from a mudslide that devastated his town.

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    Will logging the Los Padres help stop wildfires?
    1. 0:00To cut or not to cut, a debate on logging the Los Padres National Forest
    2. 14:54Author T.C. Boyle on “I Walk Between the Raindrops”You’re reading this
    3. 22:37City opens Santa Barbara’s desalination plant for public tours
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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Will logging the Los Padres help stop wildfires?
    1. 0:00To cut or not to cut, a debate on logging the Los Padres National Forest
    2. 14:54Author T.C. Boyle on “I Walk Between the Raindrops”You’re reading this
    3. 22:37City opens Santa Barbara’s desalination plant for public tours
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