Ann Patchett
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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I think every book is a gateway drug.
If you can get people to read and you get them comfortable in a bookstore, then they're going to read other books.
If you read nothing, you're always gonna read nothing.
For me, it felt like a civic duty.
I don't want to live in a city that doesn't have a bookstore.
Therefore, I guess I am the person who is going to open a bookstore.
Well, you know, my father
Had just about every job in the LAPD.
He was involved in some high-profile cases, but I don't think those cases defined his career.
He was one of the first people to interview Manson before they brought him in.
And he also was the guy who picked up Sirhan the night he shot Bobby Kennedy and drove.
him in.
That didn't affect my life, I will say, because I was a kid and those were names and that's what my father did, but I was very young.
And my father wasn't somebody who sat around and talked about murderers either.
He would not have been interested in that at all.
Well, my parents got divorced when I was four or five, and my mother moved me and my sister from Los Angeles to Tennessee.
So I didn't grow up with my father.
I saw my father a week a year, which was a great sadness.
Uh the two things that have gotten cheaper over the course of my lifetime plane travel and long distance phone calls, which are now free.
But were huge defining deal when I was growing up.
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