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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.

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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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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.

Personal demons and class differences complicate love in 'Normal People'

Personal demons and class differences complicate love in 'Normal People'

Marianne is a social pariah, Connell is a football player. Sally Rooney's nuanced, flinty love story opens in a small town in Ireland, where two teens who "get" each other get together.
by Maureen Corrigan

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From Broadway to your bookshelf

From Broadway to your bookshelf

Bookseller Susan Smelser recommends a novel based on the critically acclaimed Broadway musical, "Dear Evan Hansen."
by Tracy Mumford

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'Losing Earth' explores how oil industry played politics with the planet's fate

'Losing Earth' explores how oil industry played politics with the planet's fate

Journalist Nathaniel Rich says the oil industry helped create a partisan debate around climate change in the 1980s by paying scientists to write op-eds questioning climate science.
by Terry Gross

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Chef's memoir tackles what it's like to be young, gifted and black in fine dining

Chef's memoir tackles what it's like to be young, gifted and black in fine dining

Kwame Onwuachi's new memoir isn't just about his rise from poverty to celebrated restaurateur. It's also a meditation on being a black man in a rarefied world.
by Maria Godoy and Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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