'Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed': Hip-Hop Noir Marc Blatte's first novel is billed as "hip hop noir" — a thriller set in the record studios and hip hop clubs of New York City — with a full serving of drugs, thugs, cops and violent death.

'Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed': Hip-Hop Noir

'Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed': Hip-Hop Noir

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Marc Blatte's first novel is billed as "hip hop noir" — a thriller set in the record studios and hip hop clubs of New York City — with a full serving of drugs, thugs, cops and violent death.

Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks to Blatte about Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed.