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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.

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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.

St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

Madelyn Dietz and the other winners will each receive a $5,000 cash award. The student poet program was launched in 2011, with winners contributing to community programs and poetry events and performing their work everywhere from Lincoln Center to the White House.
by The Associated Press

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It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

In “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.
by Terry Gross

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'Every Bone' speaks in this painful, beautiful debut novel

'Every Bone' speaks in this painful, beautiful debut novel

Ashley Blooms' novel follows ten-year-old Misty, who can speak to everything around her — even the mice in the walls answer back. But she doesn't have words for what her friend has done to her.
by Fran Wilde

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Author ventures into the Russian wilds to save a magnificent owl

Author ventures into the Russian wilds to save a magnificent owl

Ornithologist and writer Jonathan Slaght spent several frigid winters camping in the forests of the Russian Far East. He was there to study the biggest owl in the world, which survived by eating fish snatched out of holes in the river ice.
by Euan Kerr

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10 thrillers Thread readers say you must not miss!

10 thrillers Thread readers say you must not miss!

For the past several weeks, Kerri Miller has been bringing you Thread must-read thrillers you should not miss. This week, readers share the works that thrill them.
by Kerri Miller

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This 'Wolf' will bite you — and you'll like it

This 'Wolf' will bite you — and you'll like it

Laura Van Den Berg's new collection is full of uncanny, exquisite, and painful stories about death, about loss and isolation and falling for the wrong person. Her writing will get under your skin.
by Gabino Iglesias

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'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Alaska museum

'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Alaska museum

The abandoned bus featured in the book and movie “Into the Wild” appears headed to a new home at a museum in Fairbanks, after being removed from Alaska’s backcountry to deter people from making dangerous, sometimes deadly treks to visit the site.
by The Associated Press

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A visit to a magical small town that you don't want to end

A visit to a magical small town that you don't want to end

Bookseller Susan Tank of Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, Ore., recommends one of her longtime favorites, the 2010 novel "Mink River" by Brian Doyle.
by Emily Bright

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Yiyun Li continues her conversations with the dead in 'Must I Go'

Yiyun Li continues her conversations with the dead in 'Must I Go'

Yiyun Li's new book — about a woman looking back on her life by annotating the diary of her late ex-lover — plays with both Vladimir Nabokov's “Pale Fire” and Li's own previous work.
by Thúy Đinh

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A mean ghost story and a souped-up crime novel will wise you up fast

A mean ghost story and a souped-up crime novel will wise you up fast

“The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die,” by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, centers on an Indian family haunted by a jealous ghost. And S. A. Cosby's “Blacktop Wasteland” is a noir thriller — with muscle cars.
by Maureen Corrigan

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