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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.

2 fractured halves make a whole in 'Evvie Drake'

2 fractured halves make a whole in 'Evvie Drake'

The debut novel from NPR's own Linda Holmes follows a suddenly widowed (and not all that grief-stricken) woman and her new lodger -- a former major league ballplayer who's lost his ability to pitch.
by Scott Simon

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Joy Harjo is first Native American named U.S. poet laureate

Joy Harjo is first Native American named U.S. poet laureate

"I want to bring the contribution of poetry of the tribal nations to the forefront and include it in the discussion of poetry," says Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and a native of Tulsa, Okla.
by The Associated Press

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'Reviving Ophelia,' cultural touchstone on teen girls updates after 25 years

'Reviving Ophelia,' cultural touchstone on teen girls updates after 25 years

The new edition is in some ways like the retelling of a familiar tale for a new generation; but parts of the discussion that the book first inspired have moved beyond what an update can encompass.
by Genevieve Valentine

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