Long before timelines, feeds and clouds, there was the simple problem of length. Thread that tangled. Wire that kinked. Film that tore. Memory that snapped if mishandled. Spool is the word that grew ...

Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread,” the 20th novel by the Pultizer Prize-winning author, is loaded with ideas and potentially fascinating storylines that are extended throughout the book but ...

The characters in "A Spool of Blue Thread" look like the same Baltimore family members we've socialized with for 50 years in Anne Tyler's fiction. In fact, everything about her new novel — from its ...

You don't read Anne Tyler to have your worldview expanded, or to be kept awake at night anxiously turning pages. You read, instead, for the cozy mildness, the comfort of sinking into each new ...

Lili Nedved walks along a row of desks observing her students, who are hunched over their A-line skirt projects in silent concentration. The only sounds filtering through the airy space are the steady ...

These wind-up wooden spool cars are simple to make but will provide hours and hours of fun and entertainment for both the young and old. These little vehicles go together very quickly and easily, and ...

From Vaim, which will be published in October by Transit Books. Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. That’ll be two hundred and fifty kroner, she said and I couldn’t believe it, two hundred ...

Silksong has 18 spool fragments scattered about Pharloom, and for every two fragments you find, Hornet's spool can hold a bit more thread. After acquiring all 18 fragments, you can hold enough silk to ...

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