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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.

How chickens came to rule the cultural roost

How chickens came to rule the cultural roost

Andrew Lawler, author of "Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?," tells NPR's Scott Simon about the chicken's malleability, its religious symbolism and the most disturbing thing he learned while researching his book.

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Coffee House Press founder Allan Kornblum dies at 65

Minneapolis book publisher Allan Kornblum has died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 65.
by Matt Sepic

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How a feud between two Russian companies fueled a 'Spam Nation'

How a feud between two Russian companies fueled a 'Spam Nation'

Technology journalist Brian Krebs writes about the rise of unsolicited commercial email in "Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime."

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Soldiers, spies, cyberwarriors: '@War' in Internet age

Soldiers, spies, cyberwarriors: '@War' in Internet age

The new book '@War' covers topics like the NSA, the role of cyber warfare in the Iraq troop surge of 2007 and China's "rampant" espionage on American corporations.
by NPR Staff

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'Everything I Never Told You' exposed in biracial family's loss

'Everything I Never Told You' exposed in biracial family's loss

A daughter's death forces members of the Lee family to confront their individual insecurities and grapple with their identity as a biracial family in the Midwest.

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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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With a little summer left, what's on your summer reading list?

With a little summer left, what's on your summer reading list?

The president skipped his usual bookstore visit. It's not clear how much we should read into that.

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Map showcases notable Minnesota authors

Map showcases notable Minnesota authors

Some of Minnesota's most notable authors are featured on a new map of the state that highlights its legacy of literature.
by Rupa Shenoy

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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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