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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

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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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases, as well as hidden gems you may have missed.

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. 

'Far from the Tree' explores space between disability, identity

'Far from the Tree' explores space between disability, identity

A conversation with author Andrew Solomon about his new book, "Far from the Tree." Solomon amassed hours and hours of interviews with more than 300 families dealing with profound differences in their children, from deafness and dwarfism to prodigies and criminality. He connects their stories of rearing "different" children with his own upbringing as a gay, dyslexic son of a wealthy couple who was constantly bullied and developed serious depression. He realizes how his differences connect him to others who fall outside the mainstream.

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2 brief Bradbury works out this fall

2 brief Bradbury works out this fall

Two pieces released this fall were written late in life by the science fiction/fantasy master Ray Bradbury, who died in June at age 91.

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Book offers inside look at pets at the White House

Book offers inside look at pets at the White House

Countless anecdotes and more than 200 pictures are featured the new book "Pets at the White House," which gives readers a glimpse of what life is like at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for pets, and what those pets have meant to their famous owners.

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MPR photos of the week

MPR photos of the week

The 2012 campaign trail, the Vikings lose to the Redskins and the Lynx tie the Fever in the WNBA finals, biologists track wolves, farmers harvest the beet fields, and a Minneapolis woman draws strength from her Barbie collection. All that and more in our photos of the week.

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Neil Young says 1st book came 'off the top of my head'

Neil Young says 1st book came 'off the top of my head'

Neil Young's fans have come to expect wild swings if they've followed his music career since the 1960s. There's the near-violent guitar solos and throbbing rock of his collaborations with Crazy Horse. Lilting acoustic melodies like "Harvest Moon." Electronic experiments. Moments of genius and ill-advised detours.

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New book explores the lives of Ojibwe elders

New book explores the lives of Ojibwe elders

Duluth's Holy Cow! Press is celebrating its 35th anniversary with the release of its most monumental work to date. The new book, "Spirit of the Ojibwe," is a comprehensive look at the history of a Wisconsin band of Ojibwe Indians.
by Nikki Tundel

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Memoir chronicles vegan extreme-runner's journey and evolution

Memoir chronicles vegan extreme-runner's journey and evolution

Scott Jurek is one of the world's top ultramarathoners, winning races of 50, 100 and 120 miles in record times. And he does it all on a vegan diet. His new memoir "Eat and Run" details his progression from a meat-and-potatoes boy who hated to run to a world-class athlete, throwing in running tips and his favorite recipes.
by Euan Kerr

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Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate

Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate

A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one — Robert Penn Warren — was named by the Library of Congress in 1986.

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