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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

Ask a Bookseller

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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller 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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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases, as well as hidden gems you may have missed.

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. 

Tickets are now available for our 26th season. Join award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller (and special guest host Catharine Richart) as they talk with authors including Stacey Abrams, Patricia Lockwood, Misty Copeland, John Grisham, and Kate Baer. 

In 'Head On,' killer robots, dogged gumshoes ... and a very important cat

In 'Head On,' killer robots, dogged gumshoes ... and a very important cat

John Scalzi returns to the world of "Lock In" -- where people incapacitated by a strange disease can re-enter the world through robot avatars -- for a murder mystery that turns on a cat named Donut.
by Jason Sheehan

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'How to Suppress Women's Writing': 3 decades old and sadly still relevant

'How to Suppress Women's Writing': 3 decades old and sadly still relevant

This collection of essays by novelist and scholar Joanna Russ was first published in 1983 -- but it reads as if it might've come out last week. "Get angry; then get a reading list," says NPR's critic.
by Genevieve Valentine

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If the Civil War ended with zombies

If the Civil War ended with zombies

Bookseller Jessica Cox recommends a novel that imagines an alternate history, where the dead rose up at the Battle of Gettysburg, triggering a zombie apocalypse.
by Tracy Mumford

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Poetry Friday: Look closely

Poetry Friday: Look closely

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Thread is showcasing three poems from local independent publishing houses every Friday.
by Tracy Mumford

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Women take fall in Nobel scandal for man's alleged misdeeds

Women take fall in Nobel scandal for man's alleged misdeeds

The ugly internal feud has already reached the top levels of public life in the Scandinavian nation known for its promotion of gender equality, with the prime minister, the king and the Nobel board weighing in.
by Associated Press

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'And Now We Have Everything' charts the emotional extremes of an ordinary pregnancy

'And Now We Have Everything' charts the emotional extremes of an ordinary pregnancy

Memoirs now tend towards the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Megan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.
by Annalisa Quinn

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