The Messiah of Morris Avenue

Studio 360

In the near future America will have gone completely Christian, Hollywood will be renamed Holywood and Jesus will hail from The Bronx. That is, if all goes according to Tony Hendra‘s new novel, The Messiah Of Morris Avenue. Hendra talks with Kurt Andersen about the sincere theology which inspired his irreverence.

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