Ann Patchett
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431 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, that's true.
It doesn't happen as often.
I'm kind of clawing around in the dark or squinting.
That's what putting a novel together always feels like to me, squinting.
And really
Whistler was very different because that was a case in which a friend of mine died, Jim Fox died on his 85th birthday, and I was writing a piece for the New Yorker about a glowworm cave in New Zealand.
And there was a little piece in that essay about Jim's death.
And I thought, Oh wow, I can really write Jim.
And I thought, what if I wrote a novel in which I took all of the love that Jim had for me and all of the love I had for Jim?
And I made up a story.
And I put the real love onto made up people in a made up story.
And it was a very
easy and joyful book to write because I had such a sensation of being with my friend.
Thank you.
Hm, thank you.
That's a lovely thing to say.
That's that's really fascinating.
I was doing an interview recently and the topic of conversation is how do you get men to read literary fiction?
And somebody was saying, Oh, literary fiction it's really been taken over by women and I was like, Well, you know, it's
It's not like the writing's been taken over, it's that more women read literary fiction and more men read non fiction.
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