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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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'Little Mosque' creator Zarqa Nawaz on mixing comedy and religion

'Little Mosque' creator Zarqa Nawaz on mixing comedy and religion

The writer/filmmaker uses humor to help people understand Islam, but it took years for some mosque members to come around to her jokes. Nawaz's new memoir is called "Laughing All The Way to the Mosque."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on hiding in plain sight

Viet Thanh Nguyen on hiding in plain sight

Viet Thanh Nguyen, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Sympathizer," shares how Ralph Ellison inspired him to become a writer.
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'Lord Grizzly': Celebrating a Minnesota literary classic

'Lord Grizzly': Celebrating a Minnesota literary classic

In 1954 Minnesota writer Frederick Manfred published "Lord Grizzly," a novel based on the epic, true tale of frontier scout Hugh Glass.
by Euan Kerr

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Barnes & Noble founder retires, leaving his imprint on bookstore's history

Barnes & Noble founder retires, leaving his imprint on bookstore's history

As founder and chairman of Barnes & Noble, Leonard Riggio steered it through the proliferation of free information in the Internet age.

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Minnesota poet Gretchen Marquette finds beauty in trying times

Minnesota poet Gretchen Marquette finds beauty in trying times

Her new collection "May Day" plumbs stories of lost love and anxiety, but each reveals glimpses of life's wonder. Marquette wrote many of the poems sitting at Minneapolis' May Day Café.
by Euan Kerr

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Novelist Richard Russo: 'I find myself now ... having lived the American dream'

Novelist Richard Russo: 'I find myself now ... having lived the American dream'

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author says his blue-collar grandfather would have been astonished by the life Russo leads. His new book, "Everybody's Fool," is a sequel to 1993's "Nobody's Fool."

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The ethics of pet ownership

The ethics of pet ownership

"Maybe love is not enough," writes Jessica Pierce in "See Spot Run." "Maybe the 470 million-odd animals we call pets also need some moral attention."
by Barbara J. King

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The great Twin Cities bookstore bike tour

The great Twin Cities bookstore bike tour

This Indie Bookstore Day, 10 Twin Cities bookstores banded together for the Bookstore Passport project, challenging readers to visit all 10 in a single day. Books producer Tracy Mumford was up for the task.
by Tracy Mumford

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A spare and suspenseful novel of family drama

A spare and suspenseful novel of family drama

"Shelter," Jung Yun's debut novel, follows a young couple who find themselves underwater in their mortgage and their marriage.
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