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The Oscar winner’s book will be published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Hanks will publish hisdebut collection of short storieswith Alfred A. Knopf, EW can announce exclusively.
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The actor will also narratethe audiobook, forthcoming from Random House Audio.
(Hanks has an affinity for the machines, owning a collection of over one hundred vintage typewriters.)
Hanks began work on the book in 2015.
I wrote in hotels during press tours.
I wrote on vacation.
I wrote on planes, at home, and in the office.
But come on, for the heavy duty work, it was laptop all the way.
Typewriters are for personal letters, for musings, for rambling stream-of-consciousness stamped-in-paper doodling.
What would you see at the 1939 Worlds Fair that would change your life?
I remember a ride in a small plane when I was 7 years old why was it was confusing?
How did a veteran of WWII celebrate Christmas in say, 1953?
Which characters voice was the trickiest to get right?Every damn one of them.
What comes before and after each of them could make a movie, I suppose.
I skimped on the superheroes, though.
How did you hone your voice as a writer?With a rat-tailed file.
