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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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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.

'An Unexplained Death' tells the tale of an unsolved mystery -- and being remembered

'An Unexplained Death' tells the tale of an unsolved mystery -- and being remembered

Mikita Brottman takes readers through a years-long journey of obsessive curiosity, trying to get to the truth of what happened after a body is discovered her apartment complex, formerly an old hotel.
by Ilana Masad

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'We Begin In Gladness' brings a message of poetry's importance in today's world

'We Begin In Gladness' brings a message of poetry's importance in today's world

Through the arc of the poet's career, Craig Morgan Teicher shows that while we are often too distracted to appreciate each other and our universe -- poetry demands that we pause and listen.
by Martha Anne Toll

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'She got those stories that other people didn't get': New biography remembers Marie Colvin, witness to war

'She got those stories that other people didn't get': New biography remembers Marie Colvin, witness to war

The American journalist reported on the human impact of war from places few Westerners ventured. Her life is the subject of "In Extremis," by fellow correspondent Lindsey Hilsum.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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Natasha Trethewey: poetry speaks 'across the lines that would divide us'

Natasha Trethewey: poetry speaks 'across the lines that would divide us'

The Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate has a new collection out, called Monument, that takes on American history, personal history, and the lives that history and poetry often overlook.

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She chose to 'go flat' and wants other breast cancer survivors to know they can too

She chose to 'go flat' and wants other breast cancer survivors to know they can too

After her double mastectomy, writer Catherine Guthrie came to embrace her new body, without breast reconstruction. But she's learned, women have to push the medical system to support this choice.
by Rachel D. Cohen

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