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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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'Based on a True Story': A creepy, twisty page-turner

'Based on a True Story': A creepy, twisty page-turner

Bookseller Morgan Miller recommends a novel built around a writer who finds sudden success, and a new acquaintance: "It's both very literary, and also just a really good, creepy, twisty thriller."
by Tracy Mumford

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Deep, compassionate 'Tess of the Road' contains a whole world

Deep, compassionate 'Tess of the Road' contains a whole world

Rachel Hartman follows up "Seraphina" and "Shadow Scale" with the story of Tess, a rebellious young woman who runs away to escape being sent to a nunnery, and finds pain and growth along her road.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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Your guide to past, present and future books-to-film adaptations

"A Wrinkle in Time" hits theaters this month. It's one of several books being turned into a movie this year. Three film and literature junkies talk about what it takes to make a good book-to-film adaptation.
by Kerri Miller and Elizabeth Shockman

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Dolly Parton gives the gift of literacy: A library of 100 million books

Dolly Parton gives the gift of literacy: A library of 100 million books

In 1995, the entertainer and philanthropist started the Imagination Library, inspired by her father, who couldn't read and write. Now, it mails free books to more than a million kids each month.
by Maureen Pao

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More than just nostalgia, 'Time Pieces' is a multilayered memoir of Dublin

More than just nostalgia, 'Time Pieces' is a multilayered memoir of Dublin

Irish writer John Banville's new book is a shimmering, frequently elusive book about a city, but also an inquiry into memory, shifting attention, and above all time as it passes and becomes the past.
by Heller McAlpin

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Sherman Alexie apologizes amid sexual misconduct allegations

Sherman Alexie apologizes amid sexual misconduct allegations

"Over the years, I have done things that have harmed other people, including those I love most deeply," the author said in a statement. "To those whom I have hurt, I genuinely apologize. I am so sorry."
by The Associated Press

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The rise of yeast: How civilization was shaped by sugar fungi

The rise of yeast: How civilization was shaped by sugar fungi

Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, "The Rise of Yeast," points out, it leaves its mark on other foods, too, including coffee, and even chocolate.
by Menaka Wilhelm

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Two decades in the making, 'Green Sun' is worth the wait

Two decades in the making, 'Green Sun' is worth the wait

Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's "Night Dogs," and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland -- bad attitude entirely intact.
by Michael Schaub

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Children's publishing house takes food literacy literally

Children's publishing house takes food literacy literally

Teaching kids how to eat healthfully and appreciate the cultural diversity of food begins with getting books about these themes into their hands, says Readers to Eaters' founding publisher.
by Lela Nargi

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'Eat the Apple' is a brilliant and barbed memoir of the Iraq war

'Eat the Apple' is a brilliant and barbed memoir of the Iraq war

In his experimental new memoir, Matt Young conveys the chaos of his three deployments in Iraq. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Young "a frank, funny and mercilessly self-lacerating narrator."
by Maureen Corrigan

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