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    Tom Hanks Is Obsessed With Typewriters (So He Wrote A Book About Them)

    The actor's new collection of short fiction — his debut book as an author — is called Uncommon Type, and each story has something to do with the machine close to his heart.
    by David Greene Oct 16, 2017 2 minutes
    Tom Hanks speaks at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards in 2016. His first book is called Uncommon Type. / Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images

    Actor Tom Hanks has made us believe he can be anyone and do anything on the big screen.

    Now he's taking us on a journey on the page: Tom Hanks has written a book.

    It's a collection of short stories, with varied subjects: a World War II veteran on Christmas Eve in 1953, a California surfer kid who

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