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Ryan Staples

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in Worcester, MA, The United States

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Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Essays

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Ryan Staples is a recipient of the commissioner's award for "Most Misleading Athletic Appearance" in the Boston Comedy Softball League. He has performed in New England's finest VFW halls, hotel function rooms, dive bars, casinos, failing movie theaters, and college cafeterias. Breakfast for Dinner is his debut essay collection. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their two children. ...more

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Breakfast for Dinner

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The Last Taxi Driver

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You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead: Collected Online Writings of Dan Harmon

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