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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Sam Stroozas rounds up local events and Minnesota book news you may have missed.

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where host Emily Bright checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. Listen to Ask a Bookseller to find your next favorite book.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller and produced by Kelly Gordon every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is an annual event series featuring notable authors in conversation about their new books. Presented by MPR News and The Minnesota Star Tribune.

'Open' explores polyamorous relationships through personal experience

'Open' explores polyamorous relationships through personal experience

“Bustle” editor Rachel Krantz's memoir is a sincere and curious reckoning with the cultural messaging we all receive about gendered expectations and power dynamics in romantic and sexual relationships.
by Ilana Masad

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'Cost of Living' considers the real price of the U.S. health care system

'Cost of Living' considers the real price of the U.S. health care system

Emily Maloney's essay collection is an indictment of the exorbitant costs of staying alive in America, and the weight of being hounded by a debt that reduces your life to dollars and cents.
by Kristen Martin

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How the Method transformed film — and made acting more human

How the Method transformed film — and made acting more human

Method acting is more than mining personal experiences to play a character — or physically transforming for a role. Author Isaac Butler traces the history of the technique in “The Method.”
by Terry Gross

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Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

Galloway escaped enslavement, became a Union spy and helped recruit thousands of Black soldiers to fight with the North, but his name has been largely left out of the Civil War narrative.
by Elizabeth Blair

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Ask a Bookseller: 'See Me in the Wonder' is an affirmation of life after loss

Ask a Bookseller: 'See Me in the Wonder' is an affirmation of life after loss

Kathy Gray is the primary bookbuyer for Lark Toys in Kellogg, Minn., and she recommends "See Me in the Wonder," a picture book by a Wisconsin author and illustrator Laurel Fraher.
by Emily Bright

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Coming of age with three contemporary YA novels

Coming of age with three contemporary YA novels

In each of these stories — “Full Flight,” “Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman,” “Ophelia After All” — a girl stands at a junction in her life, on the brink of deciding who she wants to be.
by Caitlyn Paxon

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Why power entices the wrong kind of people

Why power entices the wrong kind of people

Why do so many leaders become authoritarian, violent or just plain dishonest? A new book explores the relationship of power to corruption. Join Kerri Miller for more Big Books and Bold Ideas with author Brian Klaas. 
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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'The Family Chao' is a riveting story of identity and belonging

'The Family Chao' is a riveting story of identity and belonging

There are notable parallels to “The Brothers Karamazov” in Lan Samantha Chang's new novel about three brothers and the contentious relationship between them and their domineering father.
by Ilana Masad

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