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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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Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

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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.

'The Good Girls' aims to uncover the story behind the deaths of two Indian girls

'The Good Girls' aims to uncover the story behind the deaths of two Indian girls

Two young, inseparable teenage girls were found hanging side by side from a mango tree in a small village in India in May 2014. Author Sonia Faleiro investigates their deaths in a new book.
by Scott Simon

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A journalist's eye enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'

A journalist's eye enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'

Journalist Te-Ping Chen's fiction debut puts her reportorial talents to brilliant use, in a collection of short stories about Chinese life that will make readers reconsider their settled notions.
by Kamil Ahsan

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Author interview: ‘Ida B. The Queen’

Author interview: ‘Ida B. The Queen’

To kick off Black History Month, we talk to Michelle Duster, the great-granddaughter of journalist and Black activist Ida B. Wells, about her new intimate biography of her great-grandmother’s legacy.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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While the possible is possible: A 2021 poetry preview, part 3

While the possible is possible: A 2021 poetry preview, part 3

In the final installment of our 2021 poetry preview, we bring you books that demonstrate the incredible capaciousness of poetry — and that we hope will be sustaining company for the year ahead.
by Ana Božičević, Ken Chen and Craig Morgan Teicher

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New translation shares the voice of a poet who wrote as intensely as she lived

New translation shares the voice of a poet who wrote as intensely as she lived

Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen took her own life in 1976. A newly translated version of her three-part memoir traces the sometimes amusing, sometimes painful turns of her unconventional life.
by John Powers

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Author digs into family's 'Smalltime' mob operation, finds family secrets

Author digs into family's 'Smalltime' mob operation, finds family secrets

Russell Shorto's grandfather was a mob boss in the industrial town of Johnstown, Pa. Shorto writes about the family havoc that resulted from his grandfather's operation in his new memoir, “Smalltime.”
by Dave Davies

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