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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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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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Scientist Morgan Levine on how to influence your true age

Scientist Morgan Levine on how to influence your true age

Aging researchers have learned that your chronological age — the number of years you’ve been alive — is not the same as your biological age. Your biological age is said to be closer to your true age, which foretells how long you’ll live a healthy life. Morgan Levine details the latest science in her new book, “True Age.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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From the archives: Dan Buettner on how to live the longest, healthiest life

From the archives: Dan Buettner on how to live the longest, healthiest life

Dan Buettner's specialty is Blue Zones — communities where people live the longest, healthiest lives on the planet. It mirrors the conversation coming on Friday’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, which explores the latest science on aging detailed in Morgan Levine’s new book, “True Age: Cutting-Edge Research to Help Turn Back the Clock.”
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Debut novelist Oscar Hokeah highlights the pain and healing power of Indigenous communities

Debut novelist Oscar Hokeah highlights the pain and healing power of Indigenous communities

Oklahoma writer Oscar Hokeah draws on his own upbringing in the Kiowa and Cherokee communities to paint a kaleidoscope of Native American characters who fight to retain honor and gain healing amidst cultural trauma in his new book, “Calling for a Blanket Dance.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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N. Scott Momaday reflects on how Native stories shaped his imagination

N. Scott Momaday reflects on how Native stories shaped his imagination

This week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas conversation is with debut novelist Oscar Hokeah about his book, “Calling for a Blanket Dance.” During his discussion with host Kerri Miller, they were both delighted to discover they share a love of Native American poet and writer N. Scott Momaday. Since Miller spoke with Momaday in 2021, we decided to pull this one from the archives for all to enjoy.
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Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández explores the linked histories of the U.S. and Mexico

Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández explores the linked histories of the U.S. and Mexico

The history of the United States is inextricably linked with the history of Mexico — even if most Americans don’t know it. On this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández explains how the Mexican Revolution was incited by a band of rebels who set up base in the United States, and how that struggle shaped the borderlands today.
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From the archives: How immigration shapes America

From the archives: How immigration shapes America

We’re teeing up this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas conversation with historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez by throwing it back to 2017. That’s when Kerri Miller hosted a national call-in show called “Indivisible,” and in this episode from the archives, experts Eboo Patel and Tamar Jacoby tackle the question: Is America still a land of immigrants?
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