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Talking Volumes returns in 2023 for 24th season

Talking Volumes returns in 2023 for 24th season

The hit author series continues for a 24th season. Minnesota Public Radio and the Star Tribune are bringing back Talking Volumes in 2023, hosted by award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller. Come join us at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul this fall for conversations with four new blockbuster authors.
by MPR News Staff

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Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Aden Evosirch of the Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, Va., recommends “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is based on a true unsolved murder case in rural Ohio where six women, known as the Chillicothe Six, disappeared from the area in 2014 and 2015. Four were later found dead.
by Emily Bright

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3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's “Kairos” and Oksana Lutsyshyna's “Ivan and Phoebe” help readers connect with time past.
by Lily Meyer

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Forget the cardigan at home, Swifties get bejeweled for second Minnesota show

Forget the cardigan at home, Swifties get bejeweled for second Minnesota show

Plaid shirt days were over as thousands of fans flocked to U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday night in their best dress. MPR News freelance photographer Nicole Neri interviewed several Swifties about the homemade outfits they created for the big day.
by Sam Stroozas

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Women bootleggers in the time of Prohibition

Women bootleggers in the time of Prohibition

Journalist and author Jeannette Walls returns with a much-anticipated third novel. “Hang the Moon” follows a fiery young woman trying to maneuver within her own powerful family in Prohibition-era Virginia.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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