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Want to Write a Best-Seller? Move to Minneapolis-St. Paul

Three of the current top non-fiction books in the U.S. are written by men who were born and/or raised in the Twin Cities: Tom Friedman, Al Franken, and our own Steve Levitt. My guess is that these were the only three guys who didn’t spend their entire childhoods playing hockey. The area’s most famous author is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald . . .



Al Franken running for senate? Why not Jon Stewart for president?

I had my 20 year high school reunion last weekend. There were three highlights for me: 1) I got to see all three of my prom dates — roughly the only three dates I had in high school. 2) My old high school quiz bowl team reunited and showed we still had the right stuff, handily beating the school’s highly . . .