Tiffany Hanssen: My Name Was Gerry Sass

Paraphrase by Stephen Fishbach

Aug 31, 202620:06Arts

Debut novelist — and WNYC host — Tiffany Hanssen joins me to talk writing violence, humanizing morally complex characters, and injecting humor into a dark story.

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