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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.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

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.

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Ogress and the Orphans' leaves you filled with hope

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Ogress and the Orphans' leaves you filled with hope

Katy Herbold of Sidekick Coffee & Books in Iowa City recommends “The Ogress and the Orphans” by Minneapolis writer Kelly Barnhill. Herbold called the middle-grade novel "a family read-aloud" that she predicts will be an instant classic.
by Emily Bright

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Louise Erdrich among 6 finalists for literary Women's Prize

Louise Erdrich among 6 finalists for literary Women's Prize

The 23rd novel by acclaimed American author Louise Erdrich and an adult fiction debut by Trinidadian stand-up comedian Lisa Allen-Agostini are among finalists for the $38,000 Women’s Prize for fiction. 
by The Associated Press

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From the archives: Theologian Jemar Tisby on how the American church should grapple with racism

From the archives: Theologian Jemar Tisby on how the American church should grapple with racism

Theologian Christena Cleveland’s new book, “God is a Black Woman,” explores how the Black, sacred feminine transformed her faith. A conversation about her pilgrimage is coming up on Friday. To whet your appetite, we’ve pulled a discussion MPR News host Kerri Miller had with Jemar Tisby in 2021. They talked about white American Christians’ complicity in racism.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Ask a Bookseller: 'The Verifiers'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Verifiers'

Angela Schwesnedl of Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis recommends Jane Pek's novel "The Verifiers.” Schwesnedl says it raises questions about the people we meet online and the data that we may unknowingly share.
by Emily Bright

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Novelist Don Winslow on going home

Novelist Don Winslow on going home

Don Winslow is launching another masterful trilogy. This time, he relies on Greek literature to inspire an epic crime saga that follows the journey of a crime family from Rhode Island, where Winslow himself grew up.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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From the archives: Don Winslow on the war on drugs

From the archives: Don Winslow on the war on drugs

As we anticipate a conversation with novelist Don Winslow this Friday, we throwback to the last time he spoke with MPR News host Kerri Miller. In 2019, they discussed the conclusion to his trilogy that detailed the drug cartels and the lives of the investigators who pursue them.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

The best-selling author of “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” is back with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Delia Ephron on surviving cancer and the defiance of falling in love in your 70s

Delia Ephron on surviving cancer and the defiance of falling in love in your 70s

In her new memoir “Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life,” Delia Ephron writes about losing her first husband, finding new love, and how surviving cancer has changed her outlook on life.
by Terry Gross

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