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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.

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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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Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

A new collection features five stand-alone stories by Johnson, who died in 2017. Critic Maureen Corrigan says "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" is "the kind of work every writer would like to go out on."
by Maureen Corrigan

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Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer live by a new self-help book for each episode of their podcast By the Book, so they're experts on which ones might really help us keep our New Year's resolutions.
by Ari Shapiro

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In 'Red Sky at Noon,' a Western on the Eastern front

In 'Red Sky at Noon,' a Western on the Eastern front

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, follows a Jewish political prisoner who's pressed into a battalion of convicts and Cossacks and sent to fight the Nazis on horseback.

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Nixon's manhunt for the high priest of LSD

Nixon's manhunt for the high priest of LSD

Author Bill Minutaglio's new book chronicles Timothy Leary's international escape from a California prison and the president's campaign to make him the poster child for his war on drugs.
by Ari Shapiro

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