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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.

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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.

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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.

A war story through a Korean-American lens

A war story through a Korean-American lens

Chang-rae Lee's latest novel, "The Surrendered," deals with the trauma of the Korean War on a series of complex characters, including a war orphan and a missionary. Lee himself struggled at times to write his novel, putting it aside to work on other books.

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England's greatest literary forgery

England's greatest literary forgery

When a teenager claims to be the world's greatest bard, scholars of 18th century London were quick to embrace him, though it turned out to be a hoax. Midmorning discusses the ongoing quest for authorship and authenticity in Shakespeare's work.

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Howard Hong, renowned Kierkegaard scholar, dies at 97

Howard Hong, renowned Kierkegaard scholar, dies at 97

Howard Hong, a legendary St. Olaf College professor, and one of the nation's leading experts on the philosopher Kierkegaard, died Tuesday. He was 97.
by Euan Kerr

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Erin Hart's "False Mermaid" and unsolved murder in St. Paul

Erin Hart's "False Mermaid" and unsolved murder in St. Paul

In Erin Hart's new mystery novel "False Mermaid," the lead character comes back to Minnesota to try to get some questions answered about a murder in St. Paul that has gone unsolved for five years.
by Tom Crann

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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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Writer sees another side of China - from his car

Writer sees another side of China - from his car

When writer Peter Hessler decided he wanted to see China, he went out and got himself a Chinese drivers license, rented a car, and hit the road.
by Euan Kerr

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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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