Native son and author Rafael Alvarez returns to Baltimore this weekend for the Baltimore Book Festival. His crime drama, “Life,” premiered Wednesday onNBC.

Alvarez, a Baltimore Sun reporter for 23 years and a writer for HBO?s “The Wire,” said Charm City is never far from his thoughts. It permeates two collections of his newspaper stories,

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