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Tom Hanks discusses his debut novel

You could be forgiven for not knowing about the blockbuster film, “Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall.” That's because it’s a fictional film at the center of a new novel, "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece," written by Tom Hanks. Jeffrey Brown sat down with Hanks in New York to talk about his book and his love of making movies. It's for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

Tom Hanks discusses his debut novel

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