MPR News with Kerri Miller

A sold-out crowd welcomed Dr. Abraham Verghese to the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater for the kick-off of the 2023 Talking Volumes series.

Novelist Carol Dunbar set “A Winter’s Rime” in rural Wisconsin so her main character can both howl and heal the generational trauma that has shaped her life.

Cantankerous professor Jason Fitger returns to anchor Minnesota author Julie Schumacher’s latest novel and the last in his trilogy. This time, he is forced to chaperone a group of inept and needy students on a study abroad program.

Happy memories are weaponized with deadly results in the new thriller co-written by Sin Blaché and “H Is for Hawk” author Helen Macdonald.

Ore Agbaje-Williams explores the fine line in close relationships between compromise and betrayal with her debut novel, “The Three of Us.”

Christian Cooper was birdwatching in Central Park in 2020 when a white woman falsely accused him of threatening her. That incident went viral, pushed his work as a Black birder into the public eye, and led to his fantastic memoir, “Better Living Through Birding: Notes From A Black Man In The Natural World.”

Minnesota-native J. Ryan Stradal's new novel pays homage to the supper clubs of the upper Midwest and our intertwined love of food and family.

Luis Alberto Urrea’s new novel, “Good Night, Irene,” is based on his own mother’s experiences working as a Donut Dolly in Europe during World War II.

Readers made Max Porter’s novel “Grief is the Thing with Feathers” a huge best-seller. His latest book, equally magical, tells the story of one wild night in the life of a disaffected boy who tries to escape from the Last Chance School.