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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

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.

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.

Talking Volumes returns in 2023 for 24th season

Talking Volumes returns in 2023 for 24th season

The hit author series continues for a 24th season. Minnesota Public Radio and the Star Tribune are bringing back Talking Volumes in 2023, hosted by award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller. Come join us at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul this fall for conversations with four new blockbuster authors.
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Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Aden Evosirch of the Winchester Book Gallery in Winchester, Va., recommends “On the Savage Side,” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is based on a true unsolved murder case in rural Ohio where six women, known as the Chillicothe Six, disappeared from the area in 2014 and 2015. Four were later found dead.
by Emily Bright

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3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's “Kairos” and Oksana Lutsyshyna's “Ivan and Phoebe” help readers connect with time past.
by Lily Meyer

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Women bootleggers in the time of Prohibition

Women bootleggers in the time of Prohibition

Journalist and author Jeannette Walls returns with a much-anticipated third novel. “Hang the Moon” follows a fiery young woman trying to maneuver within her own powerful family in Prohibition-era Virginia.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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In 'The Fight for Midnight,' a teen boy confronts the abortion debate

In 'The Fight for Midnight,' a teen boy confronts the abortion debate

Dan Solomon's YA novel ‘The Fight for Midnight’ takes place during former Texas state lawmaker Wendy Davis' filibuster of a bill that would restrict access to abortion. The protagonist is a teen boy.
by Elizabeth Blair

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Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

Two new novels illustrate just how hard it is to find a foothold in America

Brandon Taylor's “The Late Americans” is a sexually-explicit, cynical novel about young people striving. “Such Kindness,” by Andre Dubus III, grapples with injury, addiction, masculinity and loneliness.
by Maureen Corrigan

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'Rich White Men' reinforces the argument that inequality harms us all

'Rich White Men' reinforces the argument that inequality harms us all

While not a new concept, Garrett Neiman makes distinct contributions to the conversation; as a rich white man, he has insider's access to that population — and doesn't shy away from self-indictment.
by Ericka Taylor

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'

Andrea King of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., recommends the nonfiction read “The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging” by Samira K. Mehta.
by Emily Bright

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