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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

Ask a Bookseller

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 back for its 25th season. Join us at the Fitzgerald Theater for four special events with renowned authors, celebrating our anniversary with a special $25 ticket price for MPR members and Star Tribune subscribers. Buy tickets here.

Echoes across centuries are reminders that the next quarantine is a matter of when

Echoes across centuries are reminders that the next quarantine is a matter of when

There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year-plus. “Until Proven Safe” takes us to the places others lingered through time.
by Annalisa Quinn

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A monk and a robot meet in a forest ... and talk philosophy in this new novel

A monk and a robot meet in a forest ... and talk philosophy in this new novel

Becky Chambers comes down to earth for her new series, about a world where humans and robots diverged so long ago that now each group is just a myth to the other, and robots propagate themselves.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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Ask a Bookseller: A readable book on economic theory

Ask a Bookseller: A readable book on economic theory

Richard Malinchoc-DeVoe of Fair Trade Books in Redwing, Minn., has a recommendation for nonfiction readers looking to learn something new this summer. He suggests "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" by economist Stephanie Kelton.
by Emily Bright

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'Women of Brewster Place' reissue brims with inventiveness — and relevance

'Women of Brewster Place' reissue brims with inventiveness — and relevance

Now newly reissued, Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel-in-stories painted a group portrait of seven Black women living on a dingy street in an unnamed city, and the systematic racism they faced.
by Maureen Corrigan

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Re-revising 'The History of Jazz'

Ted Gioia first published his “History of Jazz” in 1997, updating it for the first time in 2011. This year he did so again, after a very important decade for the genre.
by Natalie Weiner

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