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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.

Talking Volumes with Nora Ephron

Talking Volumes with Nora Ephron

A broadcast of Kerri Miller's discussion with author and screenwriter Nora Ephron about her new collection of essays, "I Remember Nothing."

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Novel explores the psychological impact of torture

Novel explores the psychological impact of torture

Author Thomas Kennedy moved to Copenhagen in the 1970s and has published more than 20 books in Europe, yet until recently had gone unpublished in America. His new book tells the story of a former political prisoner's attempt to recover from years of torture.

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Once bitten, twice shy

Once bitten, twice shy

Midmorning examines the history and the science of things that bite -- bedbugs, leeches, rabid dogs, even vampires -- with Dr. Jon Hallberg and members of the Hippocrates Cafe.
by Simone Perrin

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Ian Frazier explores the lure of Siberia

Ian Frazier explores the lure of Siberia

For almost 20 years, writer Ian Frazier has been obsessed by a place which many people use as a metaphor for unpleasantness - Siberia. He's just published his account of his five visits to the area called "Travels in Siberia."
by Euan Kerr

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Up and coming novelist Dinaw Mengestu gets rave reviews for new book

Up and coming novelist Dinaw Mengestu gets rave reviews for new book

Novelist Dinaw Mengestu's star is rising. He was recently named by the New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under the age of 40 worth watching. He talked with MPR's Euan Kerr about his new book, "How to Read the Air."
by Euan Kerr

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The president's reading list

The president's reading list

When President Obama had a book thrown at him at a recent rally in Philadelphia, many pundits had suggestions for what the book should have been. Midmorning asks a book critic and an historian what they think should be on the President Obama's reading list.

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Vampires and zombies and werewolves, oh my!

Vampires and zombies and werewolves, oh my!

The vampire and zombie craze in books, films and TV seems unstoppable. What is it about supernatural characters that captivates everyone from teenage girls to their middle-aged parents?

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Title from small Mpls. publisher nominated for Book Award

Staff at Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press are celebrating, after one of its titles was nominated Wednesday for a National Book Award for Fiction.
by Euan Kerr

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Poet D.A. Powell reflects on success and failure

Poet D.A. Powell reflects on success and failure

Days before D.A. Powell won a prestigious $100,000 award for his poetry, he received a stock rejection letter from the New Yorker magazine for a poem he'd submitted. "I kind of like that," Powell told the San Francisco Chronicle in March 2010. "It says that no matter what happens telling you you are on the right path, you are never quite there. You really don't want life to get too easy." He joins Midmorning to talk about his latest collection of poems.

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Books, by the millions, for Africa

Books, by the millions, for Africa

While many of us take books for granted, in some parts of the world they are still a rarity. A St. Paul-based organization is trying to change this by sending millions of books, most of them school textbooks, to Africa.
by Euan Kerr

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