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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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'Just show up': Sheryl Sandberg on how to help someone who's grieving

'Just show up': Sheryl Sandberg on how to help someone who's grieving

The Facebook executive lost her husband in 2015. She says, "Rather than offer to do something, it's often better to do anything. Just do something specific." Her new book is called "Option B."
by Ari Shapiro

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Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' is compelling -- and chilling

Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' is compelling -- and chilling

The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel is a horror show revealed in slow motion -- and the true horror of its brutal, patriarchal future theocracy is how possible it seems today.
by Eric Deggans

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Gripping comics memoir 'Hostage' puts you in the room where nothing happens

Gripping comics memoir 'Hostage' puts you in the room where nothing happens

Cartoonist Guy Delisle departs from the first-person travelogue format which has won him acclaim to chronicle the true story of a man kidnapped and detained for months in the Caucasus region in 1997.
by Glen Weldon

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'Anything is Possible' is unafraid to be gentle

'Anything is Possible' is unafraid to be gentle

Elizabeth Strout's new novel-in-stories is a welcome salve for troubled times. A companion volume to last year's 'My Name is Lucy Barton,' 'Anything is Possible' looks at the people Lucy grew up with.
by Heller McAlpin

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Dark lives of 'The Radium Girls' left a bright legacy for science

Dark lives of 'The Radium Girls' left a bright legacy for science

Kate Moore's new book digs into the short, painful lives of the Radium Girls, who worked painting luminous dials on watches and clocks -- and were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they used.
by Mary Louise Kelly

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'If you ever want to understand the immigrant experience,' read this book

'If you ever want to understand the immigrant experience,' read this book

Angela Maria Spring picked up Daisy Hernandez's memoir thinking she would just read the first few chapters. By the time she finished, she was crying on the phone to her mother.
by Tracy Mumford

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