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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where The Thread 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.

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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. 

'Monster in the Middle' muses on the complex nature of romantic love

'Monster in the Middle' muses on the complex nature of romantic love

Tiphanie Yanique's sophomore novel follows two lovers — the American Fly and Stela, who's from the Caribbean, as they make their way towards a lasting relationship despite their differences.
by Carole V. Bell

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Ask a Bookseller: A love letter to horror films

Ask a Bookseller: A love letter to horror films

Lee Francis IV of Red Planet Books and Comics in Albuqueque, N. M., has the perfect horror book leading up to Halloween: “My Heart is a Chainsaw” by Stephen Graham Jones.
by Emily Bright

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The end of bias: Is it possible?

The end of bias: Is it possible?

Host Angela Davis spoke with Minneapolis author Jessica Nordell about her new book exploring how bias shows up in our schools, workplaces and every part of life. And, if bias is a habit, can we unlearn it?
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Talking Volumes: Amor Towles on 'The Lincoln Highway'

Host Kerri Miller’s third Talking Volumes event of the season took place on Oct. 13 with Amor Towles, whose latest book is “The Lincoln Highway.”
by Kerri Miller

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'Gentrifier' crafts a narrative about Detroit in darkly comic vignettes

'Gentrifier' crafts a narrative about Detroit in darkly comic vignettes

Culture critic Anne Elizabeth Moore's project is also an investigation of the costs — monetary, psychological, ethical — of the free house she was given for writing, and an ode to her neighbors.
by Kristen Martin

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Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

Fourteen years after his initial diagnosis, the Pose actor revealed publicly that he is HIV-positive. Porter says being open about his health status felt like a rebirth. His new memoir is “Unprotected.”
by Terry Gross

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This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

Chinese American poet Jane Wong's new collection, “How Not to Be Afraid of Everything,” grapples with fear and anger at her family's silence about what they suffered in China's Great Leap Forward.
by Jeevika Verma

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Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'

Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'

The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss and the ongoing global pandemic.
by Barbara J. King

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Ask a Bookseller: A unique murder mystery

Ask a Bookseller: A unique murder mystery

Leading up to Halloween, Jordyn Stocks of Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, Minn., recommended the mystery novel “The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton.
by Emily Bright

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