Novelist Ira Berkowitz published his latest Jackson Steeg novel last year. Steeg is a hard-boiled detective who patrols the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York but does it in a very unorthodox way. Sinners' Ball: A Jackson Steeg Novel has just won this year's Shamus Award from the Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel. We talk with Berkowitz about how he came to writing as a second career and the creation of his signature character, Jackson Steeg. Rebroadcast.

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Ira Berkowitz, novelist

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