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Crime In The City
3:24 am
Mon August 27, 2012

Michigan Author Dreams Up A Deadlier Ann Arbor

Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 11:32 pm

Ask Harry Dolan to take you for lunch at a restaurant he's written about, and he won't disappoint. In downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., on Liberty Street, the vegetarian restaurant Seva serves mushroom sliders and yam fries that both the crime writer and his characters are quite fond of. With any luck, you'll also catch the perfect song playing in the background — "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads.

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Author Interviews
2:44 pm
Sun August 26, 2012

'A Contest Of Wits': A Former Forger Recalls His Art

Originally published on Mon August 27, 2012 10:11 am

Next time you're admiring a 19th century American master painting at a museum or auction house, take a closer look. What looks like an authentic creation complete with cracks and yellowing varnish could actually be the work of forger Ken Perenyi.

Perenyi made millions of dollars over 30 years with more than 1,000 forgeries, allowing him to jet set around the world. His highest earning work was a Martin Johnson Heade forgery that sold for more than $700,000.

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Movies I've Seen A Million Times
2:37 pm
Sun August 26, 2012

The Movie Regina King Has 'Seen A Million Times'

Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 5:04 pm

The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

For actress Regina King, whose credits include Jerry Maguire and Ray, and who currently stars on the TNT TV show Southland, the movie she could watch a million times is The Sandlot.


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Monkey See
8:07 am
Sun August 26, 2012

It's Who You Know: Predicting How 'The Newsroom' Will Get Its Next Scoop

Credit Melissa Moseley / HBO
Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy on HBO's The Newsroom knows people who know people, fortunately for him.

If there's one thing that HBO's The Newsroom is especially good at, it's portraying journalists who aren't especially good at journalism.

Well, maybe that's not fair. The fact is, they haven't had much opportunity to engage in journalism, since every major story that's come their way has been cracked not through know-how, persistence and telephonic grunt work but through the fortuitous involvement of people with whom the fictional News Night staffers happen to already be good buddies.

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Books
6:24 am
Sun August 26, 2012

Faith, Family, And Forgiveness In 'We Sinners'

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Author Hanna Pylvainen based We Sinners on her own childhood experiences.

Originally published on Sun August 26, 2012 12:32 pm

Hanna Pylvainen's debut novel, We Sinners, is about a large — very large — family that belongs to a small religious sect in Finland originating in the dim distant past. The sect, Laestadianism, calls for very strictly regulated behavior — think Amish, with possible overtones of Lutheran, purified by a schism or two. The novel is told from the point of view of family members, each of whom get a chapter, and the story goes forward in time with each person.

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