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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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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.

What happens when evolution stops? Louise Erdrich's novel starts

What happens when evolution stops? Louise Erdrich's novel starts

Louise Erdrich began writing "Future Home of the Living God" fifteen years ago. She pulled her early manuscript out of oblivion when events began to repeat themselves.
by Kerri Miller and MPR News Staff

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'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' is a call to action

'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' is a call to action

In 2014, British journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote a blog post about how tired she was of engaging with oblivious white people about race. That post went viral, and it's now the basis for her new book.
by Silvia Viñas

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A book on 'Bunk' for our post-truth times

A book on 'Bunk' for our post-truth times

Poet and critic Kevin Young attempts to make sense of a worsening surge in hoaxes -- from plagiarism to fake news -- in a new deeply researched history.
by Michel Martin

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'Annotated African American Folktales' reclaims stories passed down from slavery

'Annotated African American Folktales' reclaims stories passed down from slavery

The new anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, aims to make century-old stories -- of flying Africans, quizzical animals and even Uncle Remus -- available to new generations.
by Robert Siegel

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'This Mortal Coil' will get you all twisted up

'This Mortal Coil' will get you all twisted up

Emily Suvada's debut novel -- a high-tech young adult dystopia -- is bursting with ideas (and exploding viruses). And while it might seem like a conventional thriller, it's got a twist to reckon with.
by Amal El-Mohtar

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