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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where The Thread 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 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

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. 

Tickets are now available for our 26th season. Join award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller (and special guest host Catharine Richart) as they talk with authors including Stacey Abrams, Patricia Lockwood, Misty Copeland, John Grisham, and Kate Baer. 

Calvin Trillin

Writer Calvin Trillin searched the world for the most authentic and least fussy regional food. He visits Midmorning to talk about his new book and what it takes to eat the way the locals do.

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Christopher Paul Curtis on Talking Volumes

On Saturday, award-winning author Christopher Paul Curtis will be the guest at the Saint Paul Reads One Book event. His book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 is the 2003 selection. In January, Curtis talked with Katherine Lanpher about Bud, Not Buddy at the Fitzgerald Theater. A rebroadcast of Talking Volumes.

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Talking Volumes, Margaret Atwood

Rebroadcast of Thursday night's Talking Volumes event. Katherine Lanpher talks with best-selling author Margaret Atwood about "The Handmaid's Tale".

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Inspiring boys to read

Boys read differently than girls, says children's author John Scieszka, and the difference can mean lower scores on writing and reading tests.

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Past departures

A journey to find ancestors leads to an inventive novel. Jonathan Safran Foer writes of a search for family truths amid destruction in the Ukraine.

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A tale of Sacajawea on Talking Volumes

Rebroadcast of the April 8th Talking Volumes event with author Diane Glancy. Her new novel "Stone Heart" retells the story of American legend Sacajawea, the Shoshoni woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West.

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Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"

It's been 18 years since Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" first hit book stands, but its powerful story of a society that trades liberty for security—in part by controlling the rights of women—has lost none of its hold.

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Margaret Atwood

Best-selling author Margaret Atwood is the next Talking Volumes guest. As a preview to the May 8th event, she'll talk about "The Handmaid's Tale" and about her new novel, "Oryx and Crake", another dark look at the future.

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Poets of war and peace

Local poet Deborah Keenan recommends poets to read during wartime.

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Drama of the ordinary

Local poet Deborah Keenan talks with Katherine Lanpher about her new book of poetry Good Heart, an exploration of endings: the passing of friendships, family members, stages in the lives of children and one's own preoccupations.

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