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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.

'Boys & Sex' reveals that young men feel 'cut off from their hearts'

'Boys & Sex' reveals that young men feel 'cut off from their hearts'

Author Peggy Orenstein spoke to more than 100 young men of diverse backgrounds about sex, porn, gender and intimacy. Boys, she found, often lack "permission or space" to discuss their interior lives.
by Terry Gross

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Elizabeth Wurtzel, who stirred conversation with 'Prozac Nation,' dies at 52

The 1994 memoir opened a national dialogue about clinical depression and introduced readers to Wurtzel's brash, unapologetic voice. Wurtzel died of breast cancer at a Manhattan hospital Tuesday.
by Colin Dwyer

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There's heart amid the ruins of 'The Heap'

There's heart amid the ruins of 'The Heap'

Sean Adams' debut novel is set in the collapsed remains of a gargantuan, 500-story building somewhere in the American desert, once an entire metropolis and now surrounded by scavenger camps.
by Jason Heller

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'Why We Can't Sleep' documents the unique pressures on Gen X women

'Why We Can't Sleep' documents the unique pressures on Gen X women

Ada Calhoun talked to a lot of Gen X women about the angst they feel as they approach midlife — the pressure to have it all and the feeling that they should have done better for themselves.
by Rachel Martin

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