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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: ‘Before the Hunt’ by Barry Lyga

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Before the Hunt’ by Barry Lyga

John Shableski of The Otto Bookstore in Williamsport, Penn., recommends “Before the Hunt” by Barry Lyga.
by Emily Bright

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Kate Bowler is not living her best life — and she's OK with that

Kate Bowler is not living her best life — and she's OK with that

Kate Bowler is not here to tell you how to live your best life. She is not going to push gratitude. She doesn’t even believe in the pursuit of happiness — unless you’re looking to be unhappy. But she does think subversive, counter-cultural, breathtaking joy can happen anyway.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Crime novel author says fictional Iowa hit man 'Gerry Sass' is just doing the best he can

Crime novel author says fictional Iowa hit man 'Gerry Sass' is just doing the best he can

Emily Bright interviewed visiting author Tiffany Hanssen about her new crime novel “My Name Was Gerry Sass” in advance of her May 28 reading at Once Upon a Crime Bookstore in Minneapolis.
by Emily Bright

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15 books NPR critics can't wait for this summer

15 books NPR critics can't wait for this summer

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.
by Meghan Collins Sullivan

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Author Laurie Hertzel revisits the ghosts of her Duluth childhood

Author Laurie Hertzel revisits the ghosts of her Duluth childhood

What happens when a family doesn’t talk about a tragic death? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with former Minnesota Star Tribune book review editor Laurie Hertzel about her new memoir, “Ghosts of Fourth Street.”
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Scarlet Morning’ by ND Stevenson

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Scarlet Morning’ by ND Stevenson

Allie Cesmat of Changing Hands Bookshop in Tempe, Ariz., recommends the middle grade fantasy novel “Scarlet Morning,” by ND Stevenson — an adventure story perfect for summer reading.
by Emily Bright

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Kelly Yang's 'The Take' is an anti-aging thriller

Kelly Yang's 'The Take' is an anti-aging thriller

When a Hollywood producer embarks on a medical experiment and a movie script with an ambitious young writer, her beliefs about ambition and aging are tested.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn details a childhood underground and on the run in new memoir

Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn details a childhood underground and on the run in new memoir

Dohrn's parents, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, helped found the the Weather Underground. “I knew that the FBI was chasing us,” he says. His memoir is “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young.”
by Terry Gross

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