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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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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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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. 

'Yellowface' takes white privilege to a sinister level

'Yellowface' takes white privilege to a sinister level

R.F. Kuang's first foray outside fantasy is a well-executed, gripping, fast-paced novel about the nuances of the publishing world when an author is desperate enough to do anything for success.
by Keishel Williams

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In J. Ryan Stradal's new book, the Midwest supper club is a character unto itself

In J. Ryan Stradal's new book, the Midwest supper club is a character unto itself

“Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club” is a family drama set in and around a supper club in the fictional northern Minnesota town of Bear Jaw. Author J. Ryan Stradal says it’s “the kind of book you can’t take the Minnesota out of in editing.”
by Tom Crann

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Ask a Bookseller: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'

Amy Erickson of Bluebird Bookshop in Detroit Lakes, Minn., recommended a novel that she called “very much an up-north book.”

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How dogs become themselves and other wonders of puppyhood

How dogs become themselves and other wonders of puppyhood

Animal Month on Big Books and Bold Ideas ends with an encore presentation of host Kerri Miller’s conversation with dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz who literally wrote the book on puppies.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Josh Hames recommends local writer Jacqueline Holland, new novel, "The God of Endings." It's an unconventional vampire story, Hames says, that's a "genuinely felt human tale as much as it is inhuman."
by Emily Bright

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Encore presentation: Science journalist Ed Yong on how animals sense the world

Encore presentation: Science journalist Ed Yong on how animals sense the world

Animal Month on Big Books and Bold Ideas wouldn’t be complete without an encore presentation of a conversation host Kerri Miller had last year with award-winning science journalist Ed Yong. His book, “An Immense World,” looks at how different animals see the world, based on their unique sensory abilities.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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