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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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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.

Carol O'Connell and the covenant of the crime novel

Carol O'Connell and the covenant of the crime novel

Carol O'Connoll's new novel "Bone by Bone" opens with a human jawbone sitting on the front porch of a house in a small California town.

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Garrison Keillor spins sonnets at Minneapolis Library

Garrison Keillor spins sonnets at Minneapolis Library

Author and humorist Garrison Keillor talked about poetry, writing and his own relationship with the library at the "Talk of the Stacks" series in November at the Hennepin County Library in downtown Minneapolis.

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Authors seek new ways to sell their work

Authors seek new ways to sell their work

Many authors are finding nowadays that even after they have written their book, had it edited and published, their work is not done. Today's authors are often left with the task of publicizing their work too.
by Euan Kerr

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Jonathan Winters' "A Christmas Carol"

Jonathan Winters' "A Christmas Carol"

Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of "A Christmas Carol," using a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations.

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Christmas stories on Midday

Christmas stories on Midday

Midday features three stories of the Christmas season. Garrison Keillor has a special Christmas Day edition of "the News from Lake Wobegon," MPR's Dan Olson reads the famous 1897 New York Sun letter, "Is there a Santa Claus?," and Truman Capote reads "A Christmas Memory."

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Todd Boss rides his 'Yellowrocket'

Todd Boss rides his 'Yellowrocket'

Todd Boss is riding a poetic wave. Not only has a major publishing house just released his first book of poems, "Yellow Rocket," he says the nation has just elected a poet as president. Boss is the self-appointed poet laureate of Nina's Coffee Cafe in St Paul.
by Euan Kerr

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Young adult novelist details his craft

Young adult novelist details his craft

Imagine the earnestness of the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. Add some wry wit, elaborate imagination and a healthy dose of satire and you have the work of M.T Anderson. He's in Minnesota this week for events at the Hennepin County Library and talked to Tom Crann about what drives young adult novelists like him.
by Tom Crann

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Life on the upper Mississippi

Life on the upper Mississippi

Author Patricia Hampl draws from literary sources far and wide to take listeners on a literary voyage down the Mississippi River. She reads from her own memoirs as well as the work of other poets, novelists, historians and essayists.

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Meteorologist reflects on life and career in new memoir

Meteorologist reflects on life and career in new memoir

Minnesota Public Radio meteorologist Craig Edwards has written a memoir titled "Nature's Messenger: Memoirs of a prophetic Meteorologist." Edwards sat down with Tom Crann to talk about his career, the book and what prompted him to write a memoir on his life as a meteorologist.
by Tom Crann

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Local writer takes comparing ages to a new level

Local writer takes comparing ages to a new level

A Minneapolis writer's long running collection of anecdotes about what famous and infamous people did at certain ages now has become a compelling read.
by Euan Kerr

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