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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.

Counting the bugs and bacteria, you're 'Never Home Alone' (and that's OK)

Counting the bugs and bacteria, you're 'Never Home Alone' (and that's OK)

Ecologist Rob Dunn's new book describes the tiny life forms, helpful and risky, that live in different parts of the home, including on floors and in water faucets, basements and heating systems.
by Terry Gross

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A Marvel of a man: Stan Lee dead at 95

A Marvel of a man: Stan Lee dead at 95

Lee gave us over six decades' worth of superheroes we could identify with, characters like Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, who reacted to super-powered crises in believably flawed, human ways.
by Beth Accomando

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A literary con man climbs to success in 'Ladder to the Sky'

A literary con man climbs to success in 'Ladder to the Sky'

A charismatic young writer poaches plot points from the lives of established authors in John Boyne's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it 'erudite and ingeniously constructed.'
by Maureen Corrigan

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'Big Little Lies' author places 'Perfect Strangers' in a high-end health resort

'Big Little Lies' author places 'Perfect Strangers' in a high-end health resort

In Liane Moriarty's new novel, nine strangers gather at a 10-day wellness retreat looking for transformation -- and end up getting a lot more than they bargained for.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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An American and her Filipina translator exhume a massacre

An American and her Filipina translator exhume a massacre

Gina Apostol's new novel is a story about the Philippine-American War set in the present day, told from two dueling perspectives. Turns out the idea of multiple identities is close to her own heart.

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The rise of the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

The rise of the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

Glory Edim loves to read and talk about what she is reading. So she started a fellowship that became a literary festival, a collection of essays and a national phenomenon.
by Lynn Neary

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Enter 'Sandman': anniversary edition celebrates 30 years of dream-spinning

Enter 'Sandman': anniversary edition celebrates 30 years of dream-spinning

Neil Gaiman's most famous creation first appeared in the comics 30 years ago, but the Sandman is still shaping our dreams -- and his stories look and feel just as cool now as they did in 1989.
by Etelka Lehoczky

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Through personal testament, 'Why Religion?' explores belief in the 21st century

Through personal testament, 'Why Religion?' explores belief in the 21st century

Distinguished scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels sets out to explain why religion is still around today, through the lens of her lived tragedies -- the deaths of her son and husband 30 years ago.
by Tom Gjelten

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