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A Conversation with Elmore Leonard

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Elmore Leonard has just come out with his 40th novel, called The Hot Kid. Unlike most of his books where the action takes place over a few crazed weeks, The Hot Kid spans the 1920s and 30s in Oklahoma. It’s filled with lawmen and bank robbers, jazz musicians and oil workers. Kurt Andersen talks to […]

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