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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.

Singer, songwriter, novelist brings work full-circle

Singer, songwriter, novelist brings work full-circle

Singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche has delighted fans with her insightful songs, and soaring harmonies. She's back to present something different: her new novel.
by Euan Kerr

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Books, films, and music for the new year

Midmorning gets the scoop on what to expect from the worlds of film, literature and music in 2012.

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'Film School' is Steve Boman's account of wild ride in career change

'Film School' is Steve Boman's account of wild ride in career change

Steve Boman, a reporter by trade, decided to take a career leap in his early 40s and attend film school at USC. He recounts what turned out to be a wild ride in his new memoir, "Film School."
by Euan Kerr

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Fairy tales in prime time

Fairy Tales are often used as the basis for modern day story lines. But recently we've seen a real upsurge in the number of television and movie projects based on these favorite story lines. Why are these historic tales making such a comeback now? And are the re-tellings any good?

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Author digs into culinary giant's life outside the kitchen

Author digs into culinary giant's life outside the kitchen

Even if you don't know the name August Escoffier you have likely experienced his culinary innovation.
by Euan Kerr

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Author Lisa See on her Chinese American heritage

Author Lisa See on her Chinese American heritage

Lisa See is the author of "Shanghai Girls" and "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." Many of her books center on Chinese and Chinese American characters. She discusses her writing and the influence of her Chinese American heritage at the Hennepin Country Central Library in downtown Minneapolis.

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Hanukkah Lights 2011

Hanukkah Lights 2011

NPR's annual holiday program celebrating the Jewish festival of lights. Hosts Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz read from a collection of specially commissioned stories centering on Hanukkah.

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When dreams kill

When dreams kill

While people of all cultures experience sleep paralysis in similar ways, Dr. Shelley Adler examined the fatal sleep paralysis that caused the death of more than 100 Hmong men in the 1980s. She joins us to discuss her research.

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Minn. poet Bly celebrates friend's Nobel

Acclaimed Minnesota poet Robert Bly is helping celebrate the Nobel Prize for Literature claimed recently by his longtime friend, Sweden's Tomas Transtromer.

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Bachmann's book off to slow sales start

Michele Bachmann's new book has been slow to move off of store shelves, according to figures from the first two weeks of sales.

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