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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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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.

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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.

Larry Kramer, pioneering AIDS activist and writer, dies at 84

Larry Kramer, pioneering AIDS activist and writer, dies at 84

Kramer was a writer with an Oscar-nominated screenplay when his friends started dying mysteriously — galvanizing him to found the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and later ACT UP, to combat AIDS.
by Neda Ulaby

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How the 'lost art' of breathing can impact sleep and resilience

How the 'lost art' of breathing can impact sleep and resilience

While researching his book, “Breath,” James Nestor participated in a study in which his nose was completely plugged for 10 days, forcing him to breathe solely through his mouth. "I felt awful," he says.
by Terry Gross

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A memoir reflects on what happens to the 'Fairest' of them all

A memoir reflects on what happens to the 'Fairest' of them all

During a boyhood in the Philippines, Meredith Talusan received positive reactions to the white skin and blonde hair accompanying albinism. She found a different response as a trans woman in the U.S.
by Hope Wabuke

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The Thread: Works to celebrate our doctors and nurses

The Thread: Works to celebrate our doctors and nurses

In the midst of this pandemic, we’re acknowledging the risks and the sacrifices being made each day by our doctors and nurses. In this week’s Thread, Kerri Miller offers up a poem, a memoir and a romance novel.
by Kerri Miller

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'A Burning' has booksellers talking

'A Burning' has booksellers talking

“This is a novel of modern India that should be required reading for anyone who reads to seek a greater understanding of the world,” said bookseller Emilie Sommer.

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Pandemic makes evident 'grotesque' gender inequality in household work

Pandemic makes evident 'grotesque' gender inequality in household work

With more people staying home due to COVID-19, journalist Brigid Schulte says it's impossible to ignore "the fact that women bear so much more of the burden of child care and housework."
by Terry Gross

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'Brown Album' centers on the erasure of race in American culture

'Brown Album' centers on the erasure of race in American culture

Porochista Khakpour's work is strongest when she turns the lens on herself to examine how she, too, is complicit; many essays here are just too tantalizingly brief to allow space for deep analysis.
by Hope Wabuke

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Author Curtis Sittenfeld explores ‘what-if’ in ‘Rodham’

Author Curtis Sittenfeld explores ‘what-if’ in ‘Rodham’

What if Hillary Clinton hadn’t married Bill Clinton? In her newest novel, “Rodham,” author Curtis Sittenfeld explores an alternate life for the former presidential candidate and secretary of state.
by Breann Schossow and Kerri Miller

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