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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.

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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.

Exploring lives of whales in a time of climate change

Exploring lives of whales in a time of climate change

Bookseller Stephen Sparks of Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station, Calif., recommends the nonfiction work “Fathoms: The World in the Whale” by author Rebecca Giggs.
by Emily Bright

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'You Had Me at Hola' had us right from the beginning

'You Had Me at Hola' had us right from the beginning

Alexis Daria's soapy, sizzling new novel follows two telenovela actors who fall for each other while playing bitter exes — and have to figure out how to balance private love and public stardom.
by Kamrun Nesa

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Three voices on what they’re reading in 2020

Three voices on what they’re reading in 2020

MPR News with Kerri Miller continues its look at what to read in this tumultuous and transformational year, with a focus on fiction, memoirs and poetry.
by Kerri Miller and MPR News Staff

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Whatever you're expecting, 'Harrow the Ninth' is not that kind of book

Whatever you're expecting, 'Harrow the Ninth' is not that kind of book

Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic “Gideon the Ninth,” this is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.
by Jason Sheehan

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Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains the 'tragedy' of the Mueller investigation

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains the 'tragedy' of the Mueller investigation

Toobin's new book, “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” examines how Trump and his team outmaneuvered special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller, he says, gave Trump "a free pass" on obstruction of justice.
by Terry Gross

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A year after Toni Morrison's death, her visions of love stay with us

A year after Toni Morrison's death, her visions of love stay with us

Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and love itself was her enduring subject. But love isn't always a good or joyous thing in her work.
by marc rivers

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Love triumphs over death in 'The Death Of Vivek Oji'

Love triumphs over death in 'The Death Of Vivek Oji'

Akwaeke Emezi's new novel begins with a death; it adopts the form — but not the spirit — of traditional crime fiction, glorying in some of the genre's conventions while slyly subverting them.
by Lily Meyer

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