A celebration of books and reading from MPR News with @KerriMPR, @EmilyKBright and you.
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Remember Jane Fonda in those leotards & matching tights?? She changed the way American women thought about exercise.
Friday on Big Books & Bold Ideas: Fit Nation and "The Gains & Pains of America's Exercise Obsession."
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Art Hounds this week recommend a picture book parade, music, and whimsical art for all ages, as well as a look-back through essential workers’ roles through the pandemic. Check it out! @MPRnews #kidlit mprnews.org/story/2022/11/03…
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The top-selling author in the country right now is a 42-year-old mom and former social worker who lives in the same small Texas town where she's spent practically her entire life.
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If you're a member of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club, you know that Celeste Ng's new book is her pick this month.
And we've got Celeste on the stage of the Fitz a week from today! Be there...
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HUGE thanks to everyone who has emailed and Tweeted about the interview with @petergeye .
Here it is if you missed it.
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TONIGHT! #TalkingVolumes from MPR and @StarTribune with Karen Armstrong, author of "Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World"
Hosted by @KerriMPR
At @TheFitzTheater
Wed 9/14 - 7pCT
Info & 🎟️: mprevents.org/event/talking-…
ALT Two images side by side. On the left, a picture of author Karen Armstrong. On the right, the bookcover for "Sacred Nature"
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Back at the Fitz on Wednesday for a new season of Talking Volumes!
You don't have tickets to Karen Armstrong???
We're going to talk about the human bond with Nature & what it means in a warming world.
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I have a feeling you're going to need some joy in your life after this election season.
Talking Volumes and the Fabulous Ross Gay to the rescue!
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I'm working on a July @thethreadmpr on books about books.
Love a novel or non-fiction about books? Share it with me.
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@thethread newsletter brings you a boatload of great books every Friday!
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Trying something fun for @thethreadmpr in May. Each week, I'll pair two different books about the same person or event.
My first are two novels about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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"To engage children's interest in anything you have to be keenly interested in that thing yourself," Margery Williams Bianco wrote in 1925. Her story endures because it connects to so many people.
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This week on Ask a Bookseller, Jessica Bohnsack of Sheridan Stationery Books and Gallery in Sheridan, Wyo., was happy to recommend a historical fiction novel set in her state: "One for the Blackbird and One for the Crow" by Olivia Hawker. mprnews.org/story/2022/03/16…
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I think of Heather Havrilesky's "Foreverland" as the Gospel according to Heather on enduring marriages.
Our convo was warm & funny & truth-telling.
Don't miss it Friday at 11!
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Don't miss the wild imagination & astonishing creativity of writer Marlon James on my Friday book show at noon!
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Like to read fantasy? Take heed: Two-time Minnesota Book Award winner Brian Farrey is publishing a new novel on Tuesday. The author talked about "The Counterclockwise Heart" and his writing process on Minnesota Now:
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Hey ya'll, I'm hanging out (virtually) with the good people at the Dakota Co. Library and talking about how to read adventurously.
Feel free to join us on Jan. 13th.
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