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Steven Axelrod

A bittersweet farewell to “Friday Night Lights”

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My childhood, in strange and happy snapshots

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Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson

Why I’m still watching “American Idol” after all these years

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How the Super Bowl won me over

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Robert B. Parker, photographed, Feb. 19, 1981 at home in Lynnfield, Massachusetts., is the creator of Spenser, a private eye with a difference in a continuing popular fiction tradition. ?Plots in the Spenser books are a way for him to manifest what he is,? says Parker. ?I?m interested in the character and the way he behaves and the way one ought to behave when one encounters the issues of one?s time.? The seventh Spenser novel, ?Early Autumn?, published in February, is to be followed by ?A Savage Place,? due in August. (AP Photo/R.W. Green) (Associated Press)

Robert B. Parker: Farewell to a tough-guy writer

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