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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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'This is Not a Love Letter' really is a (heartbreaking) love letter

'This is Not a Love Letter' really is a (heartbreaking) love letter

Kim Purcell's new novel is structured as a long, beautiful, despairing letter from a young woman to her missing boyfriend, written as she spurs her friends and neighbors into action to find him.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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Where 'life is locked in an interlude of longing'

Where 'life is locked in an interlude of longing'

Emmet Penney recommends a poetry collection that explores how life is "waiting for things to happen ... and sometimes being terrified of what might come your way."
by Tracy Mumford

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A Syrian teen, forced to flee 'A Land of Permanent Goodbyes'

A Syrian teen, forced to flee 'A Land of Permanent Goodbyes'

After her first book, journalist Atia Abawi was inspired to write a young adult novel about the Syrian refugee crisis. "It seems very dark, but it's a situation that happens all the time," she says.
by Rachel Martin

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National Book Awards add category honoring works in translation

National Book Awards add category honoring works in translation

The new prize will consider both fiction and nonfiction translated into English and published in the U.S. It's the first addition to the National Book Foundation's annual slate in over two decades.
by Colin Dwyer

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'The Hazel Wood' explores the dangerous side of fairy tales

'The Hazel Wood' explores the dangerous side of fairy tales

In Melissa Albert's dark take on fairy tales, 17-year-old Alice has spent her entire life on the run from her family legacy: a terrifying mythical world created by her grandmother, a famous author.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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3 Harlem Renaissance novels deliver an ingenious take on race

3 Harlem Renaissance novels deliver an ingenious take on race

Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Minnesota Book Award finalists announced

Minnesota Book Award finalists announced

The Minnesota Book Awards have announced four finalists each for nine categories, including children's literature, poetry and Minnesota-focused nonfiction.
by Tracy Mumford

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The personal is always political: A 2018 poetry preview

The personal is always political: A 2018 poetry preview

Many of the books of poems coming out this year are sad, but also powerful; full of poets processing their lives, looking into pains both personal and political through the cracked glass of poetry.
by Craig Morgan Teicher

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A perfect example of 'if these walls could talk'

A perfect example of 'if these walls could talk'

Bookseller Lori Fazio recommends a novel where a family moves into a house, only to discover strong connections to its previous owner.
by Tracy Mumford

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