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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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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.

This family saga finds grace and beauty in ordinary lives, fully lived

This family saga finds grace and beauty in ordinary lives, fully lived

Simon Van Booy's new novel “Night Came With Many Stars” follows several generations of a Kentucky family, their crossroads and choices, their curses and hard memories, their luck and their chances.
by Jason Sheehan

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Letters reveal author's strength in a world of destructive noise

Letters reveal author's strength in a world of destructive noise

Akwaeke Emezi's “Dear Senthuran” is a story of transcendence over violence that has marked their lived experience, told through letters to friends, lovers, and public figures — some they've never met.
by Hope Wabuke

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Still don't want to go out? Here are 3 books for an inner journey

Still don't want to go out? Here are 3 books for an inner journey

Everyone's talking about getting out and about now that the pandemic has calmed — but what if you don't want to? Here are three books in translation that'll help you dig into your own life and mind.
by Lily Meyer

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4 books to broaden your Pride Month reading list

There are a lot of Pride Month reading lists out there — so we thought we'd get away from the classics everyone knows. We asked author Akwaeke Emezi to recommend some of their favorite reads.
by Noel King

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These stories dance deftly between America and Cameroon

These stories dance deftly between America and Cameroon

In her debut collection “Walking On Cowrie Shells,” Nana Nkweti bends language like a master, delivering keenly observed details and wicked humor no matter which side of the Atlantic she's on.
by Martha Anne Toll

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Bubblegum' offers a 'wonderous slog'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Bubblegum' offers a 'wonderous slog'

Bookseller Dan Carlisle was intrigued the moment he unpacked the box containing new copies of Adam Levin's novel "Bubblegum." The cover was colored and, more strikingly, scented like bubblegum.
by Emily Bright

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Love rides the Q train in this supernaturally sweet romance

Love rides the Q train in this supernaturally sweet romance

In Casey McQuiston's new “One Last Stop,” cynical August moves to New York, where she meets and falls for Jane, a mysterious punk who seems to have been trapped on the Q train ... since the 1970s.
by Kamrun Nesa

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This retelling of 'Gatsby' has demonic flair to spare

This retelling of 'Gatsby' has demonic flair to spare

Nghi Vo recasts the classic book with Jordan Baker at the center, a Gatsby who's literally sold his soul and a speakeasy crowd that's partial to a drop of demon's blood in their illicit cocktails.
by Jessica P. Wick

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