Former sports and features columnist Kevin Cowherd followed a 30 year career at the Baltimore Sun with several books, including a book about Orioles legend Cal Ripken.

His latest nonfiction work, The Gym, is a funny, suspenseful story about the quirky subculture found among those who work out together.

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