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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.

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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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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. 

New book shows F. Scott Fitzgerald's adolescent musings

New book shows F. Scott Fitzgerald's adolescent musings

A new book published by the University of Minnesota Press reveals some of Fitzgerald's earliest writing. "The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald" is a memoir that Fitzgerald wrote when he was 14 years old and living in St. Paul.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway's early life

Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway's early life

Ernest Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, started a series of scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the future Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner by describing how the sun shone and robins sang on the day in July 1899 when he was born. Starting Sunday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston will make the content of five Hemingway scrapbooks available online for the first time.

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Love's better in books: 5 romantic summer reads

Love's better in books: 5 romantic summer reads

Author Eloisa James says she wouldn't re-live her teen years for $1 million. "The senior prom alone could keep me chatting with a psychiatrist for months," she writes. Yet she enjoys novels in which characters have suffered similar trauma. These five novels are perfect for reading on a beach, surrounded by friends, far from the horrors of the past.

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Book pick: 'What Doctors Feel'

Book pick: 'What Doctors Feel'

Kerri's book pick this week is "What Doctors Feel" by writer-physician Danielle Ofri.

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Scheherazade: From storytelling 'slave' to 'first feminist'

Scheherazade: From storytelling 'slave' to 'first feminist'

The stories of One Thousand and One Nights are among the world's most famous works of literature. Scheherazade and her stories have become a touchstone of Arab culture, passed down orally for centuries. Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh has just published a modern retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, a project that began when she adapted those stories for the stage.

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Word of mouth sells at bookseller convention

Word of mouth sells at bookseller convention

On one level, BookExpo is the standard noisy trade show. But the three-day convention also is a chance to witness and perpetuate the art of word of mouth, publishing's most mysterious and most durable path to success. "Buzz" was the currency at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, and it appreciated in ways large and small.

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