This is not an LED display, it’s a thread display. The hardware artists over at Breakfast, a Brooklyn based rapid product and prototype company, built this color display that uses spools of thread for ...

Anne Tyler loves the everyday. With her 20th novel (20th!!!!), A Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler continues to sew together stories about the mundane and turn them into something approaching the magical.

"A Spool of Blue Thread,'' the newest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, is a thoughtful and intriguing study of the role of memory in creating and destroying the stories we tell ourselves ...

Anne Tyler on her new novel A Spool of Blue Thread, Elizabeth Harrower on publishing again after four decades and a close reading of Muriel Spark's manipulative Miss Jean Brodie. Show more Anne ...

Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne Tyler’s 11th novel – but she has never needed to be taught how to give her characters life. The extraordinary thing about all her writing is the extent to which ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny. They were getting ready for bed at the time. Abby was standing at the bureau in her slip, drawing hairpins ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As I settled in to Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, I recognised with a shiver of delight the same feelings — ...

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