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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. 

The Midmorning creature feature

The Midmorning creature feature

Excerpts from conversations with authors Justin Cronin, Daniel Wilson, and Glen Duncan about their literary takes on vampires, robots, and werewolves.

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Literary novelists take on the monster

Literary novelists take on the monster

Horror, science fiction and fantasy books have long been popular, but now an increasing number of novelists known for literary fiction are getting in on the act. Is it a recognition of the sales potential, or a desire by writers to explore different genres?

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Talking Volumes: Stacy Schiff

Talking Volumes: Stacy Schiff

A broadcast of Kerri Miller's conversation with author Stacey Schiff about her biography of Cleopatra.

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Oddsmakers favor Dylan for Nobel Prize

Oddsmakers favor Dylan for Nobel Prize

The winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday morning. And there is growing belief, at least among gamblers, that Hibbing's own Bob Dylan has a good shot to win the award this year.

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A conversation with Michele Norris

A conversation with Michele Norris

A broadcast of Kerri Miller's conversation with NPR's Michele Norris about race, the power of language, and her book "The Grace of Silence." The city of Minneapolis chose Norris's memoir for it's first community read. Recorded at the Guthrie Theater on Oct. 4.

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Craig Thompson's complex intertwinings in 'Habibi'

Craig Thompson's complex intertwinings in 'Habibi'

Graphic artist Craig Thompson believes that comic-books have yet to reach their full audience. His latest graphic novel 'Habibi' is an epic tale of love between two orphans in an un-named desert, and it draws on a huge array of religious and artistic traditions.
by Euan Kerr

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Book recounts a family's struggle with Alzheimer's

"A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love" is the heart-wrenching account of poet Nancy Paddock's parents' nearly decade-long descent into dementia. She spoke about the book with MPR's Cathy Wurzer.

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Books for the fall

Books for the fall

As the weather turns cold, readers are looking for a good book to curl up with. Midmorning looks at the fall's big literary releases.

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An exile reflects on his native country.

An exile reflects on his native country.

Novelist Nuruddin Farah left Somalia in the early 1990s, but the landscape of his homeland, and all the suffering it has experienced, is vividly evoked in his writing. His new book details the forces that have wreaked havoc in the country.

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