Anyone who has developed an affinity for sewing or embroidery knows exactly how quickly piles upon piles of empty thread spools can accumulate in your crafting room. To complicate the matter further, ...

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 ...

– Old wooden thread spool (at least 1 in wide) – Drill – Large drill bit – Smaller drill bit – Utility knife or other sharp knife – Pencil – Table vice or clamp (optional) – Earbuds Clamp spool in a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...