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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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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 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.

'The Future of Literature': Whiting Awards celebrate 10 emerging writers

'The Future of Literature': Whiting Awards celebrate 10 emerging writers

The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.
by Colin Dwyer

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Road trip with 'Zora and Langston' in this real-life literary adventure

Road trip with 'Zora and Langston' in this real-life literary adventure

Squeeze into the rumble seat --- Yuval Taylor brings readers along on a 1927 summer road trip taken by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Their friendship turned out to be a very bumpy ride.
by Maureen Corrigan

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'The New Me' is meh about adulthood and ambition

'The New Me' is meh about adulthood and ambition

Halle Butler's new novel explores what it's like to work in a dead-end office job. Her satirical story focuses on a 30-year-old woman named Millie who wanders from temp job to temp job.
by Ailsa Chang

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Building a home of stories in 'The Bird King'

Building a home of stories in 'The Bird King'

G. Willow Wilson's luminous new novel is set during the last days of Muslim Granada, and follows a royal concubine and her mapmaker friend as they flee the Inquisition for a place that may not exist.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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