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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

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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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases, as well as hidden gems you may have missed.

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.

New anthology of stories from Southeast Asian elders explores joy after grief

New anthology of stories from Southeast Asian elders explores joy after grief

A Minneapolis-based nonprofit is releasing a book of stories collected by 16 authors from their older relatives who fled Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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The best children’s books to give as gifts for the holidays

The best children’s books to give as gifts for the holidays

The holiday season is here. Why not give a book to the child in your life? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a bookseller and a children’s librarian about the best children’s books of 2023 and titles to give as gifts over the holidays.
by Angela Davis, Maja Beckstrom and Nicole Johnson

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Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Women’s House of Detention’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Women’s House of Detention’

Halee Kirkwood of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis says one of their favorite books from this year is “The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison” by Hugh Ryan.
by Emily Bright

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Tour the galaxy with the 'Bad Astronomer'

Tour the galaxy with the 'Bad Astronomer'

In his new book, Philip Plait — aka the Bad Astronomer — takes space fans on a vivid tour of the cosmos, with stops on planets, moons, stars and even black holes. (Spoiler: That last one doesn’t end well.)
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Ned Blackhawk and Justin Torres are among the winners of National Book Awards

Ned Blackhawk and Justin Torres are among the winners of National Book Awards

The nonfiction prize was awarded on Wednesday night to Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America.” Justin Torres’ “Blackouts” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Young people’s literature was won by Dan Santat’s “A First Time for Everything.”
by The Associated Press

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