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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other 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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St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

St. Paul teen named one of 5 National Student Poets

Madelyn Dietz and the other winners will each receive a $5,000 cash award. The student poet program was launched in 2011, with winners contributing to community programs and poetry events and performing their work everywhere from Lincoln Center to the White House.
by The Associated Press

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It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

It's more than racism: Isabel Wilkerson explains America's 'caste' system

In “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.
by Terry Gross

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Author ventures into the Russian wilds to save a magnificent owl

Author ventures into the Russian wilds to save a magnificent owl

Ornithologist and writer Jonathan Slaght spent several frigid winters camping in the forests of the Russian Far East. He was there to study the biggest owl in the world, which survived by eating fish snatched out of holes in the river ice.
by Euan Kerr

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'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Alaska museum

'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Alaska museum

The abandoned bus featured in the book and movie “Into the Wild” appears headed to a new home at a museum in Fairbanks, after being removed from Alaska’s backcountry to deter people from making dangerous, sometimes deadly treks to visit the site.
by The Associated Press

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