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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.

Nobel-winning poet muses on the tension between speech and silence

Nobel-winning poet muses on the tension between speech and silence

When Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 his biography stated how his work revolves around the "inner tension between speech and silence."
by Euan Kerr

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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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Author Thomas Friedman discusses latest effort

Thomas Friedman speaks with MPR about his latest book,"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back."

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The literature of 9/11

The literature of 9/11

In the ten years since the September 11 attacks, pages have been devoted to describing the events and the effects of that day. Midmorning looks at how literature has been shaped by 9/11, and also how it has shaped our understanding of the event.

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Books for the college bound

Books for the college bound

The summer before college is one of the last times, at least for a few years, that students have the time to read for fun. What books should be they be reading to prepare for the intellectual (and emotional) adventure of college?

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Bachmann memoir coming in November

Bachmann memoir coming in November

Michele Bachmann has a book deal. The Republican presidential candidate's memoir, currently untitled, has already been completed and will arrive in November.

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Amazon ups the ante against publishers

Amazon announces the signing of a popular self-help author in a high-profile move to position the online retailer as a publisher. The move is making traditional publishers nervous.

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