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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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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Sam Stroozas rounds up local events and Minnesota book news you may have missed.

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where host Emily Bright 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 and produced by Kelly Gordon every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

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.

Talking Volumes: Edwidge Danticat on ‘We’re Alone’

Talking Volumes: Edwidge Danticat on ‘We’re Alone’

The 25th season of Talking Volumes kicked off with Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat, who joined host Kerri Miller on the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater to talk about her new book of essays, “We’re Alone.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Minnesota Now and Then: A Minnesotan Broadway performer’s stardom was limited by the Red Scare

Minnesota Now and Then: A Minnesotan Broadway performer’s stardom was limited by the Red Scare

If you were a devoted theater fan in 1940s Minneapolis, you would have come across a rising star named Hilda Simms. Simms went on to lead on Broadway and in Hollywood. But like many performers of her generation, the Red Scare limited her rising stardom.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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Voicing Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota: A collaboration between author Larry Millett and actor Steve Hendrickson

Voicing Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota: A collaboration between author Larry Millett and actor Steve Hendrickson

Actor Steve Hendrickson brings Larry Millett’s Minnesota Mystery series to life through audiobook narration, enhancing the stories' reach and character depth.
by Emily Bright

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William Moyers shares his journey to sobriety in new memoir

William Moyers shares his journey to sobriety in new memoir

William Moyers overcame his addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine in the 1980s and became a star of the recovery world, working as the vice president of public affairs at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and publishing a memoir about his sobriety called “Broken.” But that’s not the full story.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Rachel Kushner’s new espionage thriller may be her coolest book yet

Rachel Kushner’s new espionage thriller may be her coolest book yet

In “Creation Lake,” a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner challenges readers to keep up with her and not to flinch.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Tree. Table. Book.‘ by Lois Lowry

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Tree. Table. Book.‘ by Lois Lowry

Kristin Nilsen of Big Hill Books in Minneapolis recommends “Tree. Table. Book.” by Lois Lowry
by Emily Bright

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Margaret Renkl on ‘The Comfort of Crows’

Margaret Renkl on ‘The Comfort of Crows’

To celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Talking Volumes, we are revisiting a favorite from last year. New York Times columnist and nature writer Margaret Renkl closed out the 2023 Talking Volumes season with meditations on the joys of a backyard oasis, the inevitable losses of a warming climate and how to live while holding both of those truths in tandem.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Author of ‘The Parrot and the Igloo’ examines the history of climate change deniers

Author of ‘The Parrot and the Igloo’ examines the history of climate change deniers

David Lipsky, author of “The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial,” talks about the history of climate change and those who deny the science behind human-caused climate change. 
by Paul Huttner and Matthew Alvarez

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