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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.

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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.

Civil rights leader Ethel Ray Nance to be honored in Duluth and in new biography

Civil rights leader Ethel Ray Nance to be honored in Duluth and in new biography

Nance was the first Black woman to work as a stenographer at the state legislature, an executive secretary for W.E.B DuBois and one of the first Black policewomen in Minnesota. Her granddaughter tells her story in a new book.
by Cathy Wurzer and Aleesa Kuznetsov

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International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 spans three continents

International Booker Prize shortlist for 2024 spans three continents

The International Booker Prize celebrates fiction that’s been translated into English. This year’s shortlist, announced Tuesday morning, features books in six languages from three continents.
by Elizabeth Blair

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Minnesota author’s book is being shot for star studded film adaptation ‘Nuremberg’

Minnesota author’s book is being shot for star studded film adaptation ‘Nuremberg’

Minnesota historian Jack El-Hai is seeing a book he published more than ten years ago turned into a Hollywood film and a stage play. His book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” tells the story of a young army doctor whose job was to evaluate top-ranking Nazi officials — and decide whether they were fit to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Art and Fear’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Art and Fear’

Discover the inspirational power of perseverance in artmaking with “Art and Fear,” a favorite of bookseller and amateur painter Elaine Eckert of Dickson Books.
by Emily Bright

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Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?

In her new novel, “Village Weavers,” author Myriam J. A. Chancy draws on her Haitian roots to share a story about friendship, family and what can stitch us back together after we are ripped apart.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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‘Lilith’ cuts to the heart of the gun debate and school shootings

‘Lilith’ cuts to the heart of the gun debate and school shootings

Eric Rickstad’s novel is full of sadness and rage; it forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture, a too-common occurrence that is extremely rare in other countries.
by Gabino Iglesias

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