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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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Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where The Thread 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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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. 

‘I'm one American story’: Minnesota author Kao Kalia Yang resists being ‘the Hmong voice’

‘I'm one American story’: Minnesota author Kao Kalia Yang resists being ‘the Hmong voice’

Author Kao Kalia Yang resists being boxed in, both as the only '“Hmong voice” in literature and in a singular genre. The Minnesota author has written memoirs, fiction, picture books, and even an opera.
by Emily Bright

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What our 'good boys' can teach us about living a good life

What our 'good boys' can teach us about living a good life

In his new book, “The Word of Dog,” philosopher Mark Rowlands extols the the morality of dogs, which he says leads to a happy and fulfilling life.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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There's some Revolutionary reading coming your way this week

There's some Revolutionary reading coming your way this week

The second volume in Pulitzer-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution publishes Tuesday. Plus a graphic memoir, short fiction, and "the secret life" of a cemetery.
by Colin Dwyer

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This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama

This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In “The Golden Hour,” he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.
by John Powers

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'Chooch Helped' this author and illustrator win the 2025 Caldecott Medal

'Chooch Helped' this author and illustrator win the 2025 Caldecott Medal

Author Andrea L. Rogers and artist Rebecca Lee Kunz met by chance at the Cherokee National Holiday. Then they won the 2025 Caldecott Medal for their story about a helpful little boy named Chooch.
by Samantha Balaban

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Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

Victoria Ford of Comma, a bookshop in Minneapolis, recommends Karen Russell’s “The Antidote.” 
by Emily Bright

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