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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.

No one's telling the truth in Joshua Ferris' new novel — or are they?

No one's telling the truth in Joshua Ferris' new novel — or are they?

Charlie Barnes, the figure at the center of Ferris' “A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” is 68 and on his fifth marriage, and after a self-diagnosed cancer scare, he wants his son to write his life story.
by Michael Schaub

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'Me Too' founder Tarana Burke says Black girls' trauma shouldn't be ignored

'Me Too' founder Tarana Burke says Black girls' trauma shouldn't be ignored

Burke says society often ignores Black girls' sexual trauma — and that the R. Kelly trial, coming after 25 years of allegations, highlights the "stark difference" in response to victims of color.
by Tonya Mosley

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For fall, 3 novels where great translations make all the difference

For fall, 3 novels where great translations make all the difference

Sometimes, it's not the author you choose, it's the translator. So we've picked three novels where the translation will help you discover new things about the text, even if you can read the original.
by Lily Meyer

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Need a read for kids? 15 suggestions from booksellers — and kids

Need a read for kids? 15 suggestions from booksellers — and kids

MPR recently tapped independent bookstore owners and young readers for recommendations on good books for young people to read right now. Here’s some of the best of what they told us.
by Emily Bright

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Ask a Bookseller: Epic fates and myth in this novel set in ancient Greece

Ask a Bookseller: Epic fates and myth in this novel set in ancient Greece

To wrap up September’s theme of books for kids, teens and in-between, Rosalind Casey of Books of Wonder in Manhattan recommended “Amber and Clay” by Newberry Medal-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz.
by Emily Bright

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Communication is the challenge in this novel of loss and discovery

Communication is the challenge in this novel of loss and discovery

Jon McGregor's new novel follows an expedition guide who suffers a stroke in the middle of an Antarctic ice storm and loses the ability to speak — and the people around him at a loss for what to say.
by Lily Meyer

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Percival Everett's latest combines racial allegory in history, horror and blood

Percival Everett's latest combines racial allegory in history, horror and blood

In “The Trees,” Everett revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, imagining a series of similar killings in the same small Mississippi town. Mixing horror, humor and insight, it's impossible to put down.
by Carole V. Bell

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Make this 'Fortnight in September' your pandemic escape

Make this 'Fortnight in September' your pandemic escape

R.C. Sherriff's recently reissued 1931 novel, which follows a British family on their two-week holiday, is a reflection on how time changes shape in periods like a vacation — or even a pandemic.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Despite the title, we bet you'll like this YA novel — a lot

Despite the title, we bet you'll like this YA novel — a lot

Michelle Quach's immensely lovable YA debut “Not Here to Be Liked” centers on Eliza, who's just been done out of her dream job as editor of the high school paper by an unqualified but very charming boy.
by Alethea Kontis

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