Okay, it was actually published a couple weeks ago. But Boston magazine's Francis Storrs does such a good job of telling Dan Brown's life story in Brown's own cheesy/compulsively readable voice that you really ought to take a look, in honor of the much-anticipated release today of The Lost Symbol. A quick sample:

According to this year's list of finalists for the Livingston Awards--which honor the best young American journalists working in all platforms--Boston's got five of the top fifty. The lucky (or talented) few: Laura Crimaldi of the Herald; Tracy Jan and Farah Stockman of the Globe; and Paul Kix and Francis Storrs of Boston magazine. Congrats to all.