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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.

Christine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with ‘One Way Back’

Christine Blasey Ford aims to own her story with ‘One Way Back’

In an interview with NPR, Ford says it was only a couple of years ago that she felt ready to revisit how her life was upended by Brett Kavanaugh's rise to a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.
by Reena Advani

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Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Bullet Swallower’

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Bullet Swallower’

Kara Thom of Excelsior Bay Books in Excelsior recommends a multi-generational novel, “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.
by Emily Bright

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In ‘The Manicurist's Daughter,’ a refugee family goes on after its matriarch’s death

In ‘The Manicurist's Daughter,’ a refugee family goes on after its matriarch’s death

Author Susan Lieu transforms her acclaimed 2019 one-woman show — “140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother” — into a memoir of her family after the death of her mother due to botched plastic surgery.
by Thúy Đinh

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How memory works

How memory works

Why is music so evocative? Why do some memories stick and others fade? How important is slow-wave sleep to the way memory works? One of the country’s leading neuroscientists joins MPR News host Kerri Miller on Big Books and Bold Ideas this week to talk about why memory isn’t so much who we were as who we are.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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American Library Association report says book challenges soared in 2023

American Library Association report says book challenges soared in 2023

Overall, the number of individual titles challenged in both school and public libraries spiked by 65 percent — the highest level ever recorded by the ALA.
by Tovia Smith

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First Black female jockey Cheryl White celebrated in Minnesota

First Black female jockey Cheryl White celebrated in Minnesota

Raymond White is traveling to Minnesota this coming weekend to share his sister’s legacy with a nonprofit equestrian program for BIPOC youth in the Twin Cities.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Is God Is’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Is God Is’

Blake Worthey of Two Friends Bookstore in Bentonville, Ark., recommends Aleshea Harris’s play “Is God Is.”
by Emily Bright

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