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Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes, a collaboration between MPR News and the Minnesota Star Tribune, returns for a landmark 27th season at a new location, the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium at St. Catherine University in St. Paul.

Join us this fall for five special events with authors including Marlon James, Lucy Foley, Min Jin Lee, Emily St. John Mandel and Colson Whitehead. Tickets available now.

Thread Book Hour: U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith

Thread Book Hour: U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith

Since getting the job in 2017, Smith has been on a mission to take her poetry on the road, visiting rural areas where most writers aren't expected to go.
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Thread Book Hour: Arundhati Roy

Thread Book Hour: Arundhati Roy

Kerri Miller interviews Man Booker Award winning author Arundhati Roy.

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Thread Book Hour: Carter Meland and Terese Mailhot

Thread Book Hour: Carter Meland and Terese Mailhot

Today on MPR News Presents it's the Thread Book Hour with a duo of Native American authors.
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Thread Book Hour: Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay

Thread Book Hour: Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay

The Fast and the Furious, feminism, CSI, and Little House on the Prairie. What do all those topics have in common? Writer Roxane Gay.
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Thread Book Hour: David Grann, 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Thread Book Hour: David Grann, 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Best-selling author David Grann tells the story of a little-remembered crime that modernized investigative procedure in the United States.
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Thread Book Hour: Dan Brown, author of 'Origin'

Thread Book Hour: Dan Brown, author of 'Origin'

Kerri Miller interviews best-selling author Dan Brown about his latest novel, "Origin," for the Talking Volumes series.
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Thread Book Hour: Stephen Greenblatt and Mark Bowden

Thread Book Hour: Stephen Greenblatt and Mark Bowden

Thread Book Hour featuring Stephen Greenblatt on "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve" and Mark Bowden on "Hue, 1968."
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Thread Book Hour: Jacqueline Woodson 'Talking Volumes'

Thread Book Hour: Jacqueline Woodson 'Talking Volumes'

A conversation with Jacqueline Woodson, author of "Another Brooklyn" and "Brown Girl Dreaming."
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