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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. 

For Kate DiCamillo, stories are everywhere

For Kate DiCamillo, stories are everywhere

One of Minnesota's best-known children's authors, Kate DiCamillo, is one of six nominees for the Most Engaging Author in the American Booksellers Association's 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards. She spoke with MPR's Cathy Wurzer about her writing last fall at the Fitzgerald Theater.

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Keeping the Feast

Keeping the Feast

In a new memoir, foreign correspondent Paula Butturini reflects on how she tried to keep her marriage together through her husband's long recovery from a sniper's bullet and his depression.

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A new take on the gangster novel

A new take on the gangster novel

When author Thomas Mullen decided to write a Depression-era gangster novel, he wanted to find a new angle. He found it for his new book, "The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers."
by Euan Kerr

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The enduring power of 'My Antonia'

The enduring power of 'My Antonia'

Willa Cather's "My Antonia" captured the beauty of the prairie and the hardscrabble existence of European immigrants on the Nebraska plains. The author of a new stage adaptation of the novel, and a Cather scholar, talk about why the story still resonates.

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The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

The Iraq war transformed a group of idealistic Army Rangers, and journalist David Finkel has chronicled their story in a book that won critical acclaim last year.

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Mystery surrounds roots of the Macbeth curse

Mystery surrounds roots of the Macbeth curse

The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis opens a brand new production of Macbeth this weekend - and that makes some people a little nervous. In some circles Shakespeare's bloody tragedy is believed to be cursed.
by Euan Kerr

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A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution

A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution

The experience of leaving Ethiopia was so traumatic for her, author Maaza Mengiste has very clear memories of what happened. Now, in an attempt to give those memories some context, she has written a critically-acclaimed novel "Beneath the Lion's Gaze."
by Euan Kerr

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Ventura releasing new book on conspiracy theories

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is taking on everything from the attacks of Sept. 11 to the elections of 2000 and 2004 in a new book examining conspiracy theories.

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