Ann Patchett

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431 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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ReThinking · The craft of storytelling with Ann Patchett · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I own this bookstore and the non fiction when you walk in the door is to the right and the fiction is to the left, and it's not a hundred percent true, but the men tend to go to the right and the women tend to go to the left.

You know, I d I don't think about changing it.

I'm happy that people read.

Anytime somebody is reading.

I think it's a bonus.

And I think if you read always in the same genre, someday you might trip over into another genre.

So I would never say, well, I just want to make sure that kid grows up and reads literary fiction.

I just want to make sure that kid grows up and reads.

Um it you're absolutely right.

Um, it's completely true and it doesn't relate at all to my motivation.

So my motivation was the bookstores in Nashville closed.

This was 15 years ago.

And I waited around.

I've never wanted to own a bookstore.

That was never my dream.

I waited for someone else to do it.

No one did it.

I met a woman who was a retired sales rep from Random House.

She wanted to run a bookstore.

We decided to go into business together, total strangers.

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