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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.

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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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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.

How your grandmother’s diet set the stage for your health today  

How your grandmother’s diet set the stage for your health today  

The author of a new book, “You Are What Your Grandparents Ate,” discusses what epigenetics has learned about nutrition, experience and the origins of chronic disease.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Betsey Johnson talks fashion, love and motherhood in self-titled memoir

Betsey Johnson talks fashion, love and motherhood in self-titled memoir

The designer who has been pushing fashion boundaries for decades reveals more about the woman behind the brand — the whimsy and fun, but also difficult times, from relationships to health challenges.
by Michel Martin

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'Apsara Engine' doesn't break the graphic novel rules — it ignores them

'Apsara Engine' doesn't break the graphic novel rules — it ignores them

Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.
by Etelka Lehoczky

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In 'Becoming Wild,' Carl Safina takes us inside the cultures of animals

In 'Becoming Wild,' Carl Safina takes us inside the cultures of animals

Combining the knowledge of a seasoned scientist and the skills of a good storyteller, the ecologist-author invites us to leave our cultural worlds and enter some animal ones to see just how they work.
by Barbara J. King

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