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Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

Thinking about learning to code? Or maybe you want to get better at Python? There’s this book, the Python Crash Course book, that people seem to really like, especially if you’re looking on Amazon. It ...

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One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...

The three friends snuck through the back door of an industry where the old rules no longer applied, and where few knew what they were supposed to be doing. One was an antisocial loner; one a manic ...

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On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...