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Rick Kogan: The couple that writes together has a pair of new books about the world around us

Writers Blair Kamin and Barbara Mahany in their home on July 17, 2023.

CHICAGO — Reunions can be pleasant and so it was when I got together with former Tribune colleagues Barbara Mahany and Blair Kamin. But our conversation was less about what old mutual pals have been up to, the health troubles that have come visiting, or what new hobbies or restaurants we’ve discovered than it was about the world in which we live.

These two have been married since 1991 and were for many of those years, and a few beforehand, among the brightest bylines to appear in the Tribune, Mahany as a stylish feature writer and Kamin as architecture critic, a

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