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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

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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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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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Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is an annual event series featuring notable authors in conversation about their new books. Presented by MPR News and The Minnesota Star Tribune. 

Tickets are now available for our 26th season. Join award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller (and special guest host Catharine Richart) as they talk with authors including Stacey Abrams, Patricia Lockwood, Misty Copeland, John Grisham, and Kate Baer. 

New novel shows destruction of Rondo neighborhood through the eyes of a young girl

New novel shows destruction of Rondo neighborhood through the eyes of a young girl

Decades after Interstate 94 construction destroyed her grandparents’ house in the 1960s, writer Debra J. Stone wrote about a young girl who grapples with the displacement and destruction of her historically Black neighborhood.
by Nina Moini and Ellen Finn

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New books this week: Thomas Pynchon’s first novel in 12 years, and much more

New books this week: Thomas Pynchon’s first novel in 12 years, and much more

In addition to Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket,” this week's releases include a new memoir from “Dopesick” author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story from former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.
by Colin Dwyer

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When the sea went strange: A Minnesota connection to the National Book Awards

When the sea went strange: A Minnesota connection to the National Book Awards

Ethan Rutherford, a Minnesota-connected author, earned a National Book Award longlist spot for his surreal, environmentally charged debut novel “North Sun,” a lyrical whaling tale that blends history with myth.
by Emily Bright

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Talking Volumes: Patricia Lockwood's new novel is a COVID-induced fever dream

Patricia Lockwood’s new book, “Will There Ever Be Another You,” is a loosely sane account of a woman losing her mind, her body and herself after contracting COVID-19. She joined Kerri Miller in St. Paul on Sept. 25 for Talking Volumes.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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With 831 Stories, romance fans get more than a steamy read

831 Stories is all-in on the romance genre, and the founders are cultivating a whole world around the books they publish, complete with fanfiction and merchandise.
by Juana Summers, Karen Zamora and Sarah Handel

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PEN America warns of rise in books ‘systematically removed from school libraries’

PEN America warns of rise in books ‘systematically removed from school libraries’

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. “A Clockwork Orange” tops their list.
by Anastasia Tsioulcas

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Patrick Ryan's 'Buckeye' is a sweeping drama set in a small town in Ohio

Patrick Ryan's 'Buckeye' is a sweeping drama set in a small town in Ohio

Patrick Ryan’s new novel, “Buckeye” is the perfect fall read — a sweeping, multigenerational story of two families undone by secrets in a small Ohio town.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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