Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Tom Hanks publishes short story in the New Yorker

The Apollo 13 star sees his first piece of fiction, about four friends who plan a trip to the moon, in the pages of the illustrious magazine

Tom Hanks
From film to fiction … Tom Hanks’s first short story finds a home in the New Yorker magazine. Photograph: Austin Hargrave/Columbia Pictures
A golden age for short fiction, which has seen Alice Munro win the Nobel and George Saunders take home the Folio prize, today became even brighter after the New Yorker unveiled the latest addition to its storied ranks of contributors: Tom Hanks.
Home to writers acclaimed as some of the world’s finest, from Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood, the New Yorker has included the actor’s story, Alan Bean Plus Four, in its 27 October issue. Hanks’s first short story tells of a trip to the moon cobbled together by four friends.
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