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Desk: Jones appears to be an avid reader. Her bookshelf includes Al Franken’s recent Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Beginners’ Swedish, and a collection of Steven Pinker books. Kauble happens upon a ball of yarn. “Oh, she’s a knitter!” he exclaims. Upon further exploration, more balls of yarn emerge. “She’s obviously going all out on this—she’s got three balls of this shit! She must be making a whole wardrobe...
...during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production?the best are in Italy and Scotland?where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production--the best are in Italy and Scotland--where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...boredom and difficulty. We praise rich, complex, lyrical prose, but we don't really appreciate the pleasures of a well-paced, gracefully structured plot. Or, worse, we appreciate them, but we are embarrassed about it. Somewhere along the line, we learned to associate the deliciousness of a cracking good yarn--that ineffable sense of things falling into place and connecting with one another in an accelerating, exhilarating cascade--with shame, as if literature shouldn't be this much fun, and if it is, it isn't literature. I'm sure some psychiatrist somewhere has a name for associating pleasure with...
Opening this week, Shattered Glass depicts the downfall of yarn-spinning New Republic staff writer STEPHEN GLASS, left, who fabricated sources. HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN stars as the guy D.C. beat reporters love to hate...