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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.

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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'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility

'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir “Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.”
by Reena Advani

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Evelyn Bauer of Papercuts Bookshop recommends “The Poetics of Wrongness” by poet Rachel Zucker. She challenges outdated paradigms of motherhood, feminism and poetics.
by Emily Bright

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Veterinarian Karen Fine on the special role pets play in our lives

Veterinarian Karen Fine on the special role pets play in our lives

Animal Month continues on Big Books and Bold Ideas. This week, host Kerri Miller talks with veterinarian Karen Fine. Her new book, “The Other Family Doctor,” is a tribute to the furry, fuzzy, feathery and sometimes scaly creatures we include as members of the family.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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From the archives: Underwater nature photographer David Doubilet

From the archives: Underwater nature photographer David Doubilet

Animal Month continues on Big Books and Bold Ideas. This week’s blast from the past is a 2006 conversation host Kerri Miller had with underwater wildlife photographer David Doubilet.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Curtis Sittenfeld's 'Romantic Comedy' is about more than just laughs

Curtis Sittenfeld's 'Romantic Comedy' is about more than just laughs

The latest novel by Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld may center on a weekend late night live comedy show, but it delves deep into the human condition.
by Euan Kerr

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Mostly through images, a daughter grieves her mother in 'Ephemera'

Mostly through images, a daughter grieves her mother in 'Ephemera'

Briana Loewinsohn's graphic novel presents a fully developed internal, and external, landscape without leaning heavily on words. It's a sophisticated exploration of the weight adults carry around.
by Tahneer Oksman

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Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

The novel is a fairly direct retelling of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens, set in the 1980s in Appalachia — familiar territory for rural Kentucky-born Kingsolver.
by Emily Bright

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Erica Berry on what wolves teach us about fear

Erica Berry on what wolves teach us about fear

April is Animal Month on Big Books and Bold Ideas, a series of conversations about our relationship with animals and our shared space in this world. We begin with an animal whose history and presence is entwined with the human psyche — wolves.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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