Ann Patchett
speaker
431 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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Phone rings, rings, rings.
Normally I don't just pick up the phone without checking caller ID, but it was my birthday and I picked up the phone.
And it was a guy whose grandmother had bought a night table.
In a antique mall.
And it turns out that this night table had been my night table in high school.
And a bunch of my papers from high school had fallen down the back of the drawers.
Poems, photographs of my friends, notes, and an award.
This is why the guy tracked me down.
It was like an award that I had won from Rotary about an essay I had written on the Pledge of Allegiance.
And I'm thinking, this is just like someone is saying, okay, here you go.
Here's an essay.
And where does the essay begin?
It begins when the phone starts ringing.
Where does the essay stop?
It stops when this guy comes to my bookstore with his wife and his baby and he brings me these papers.
And in the middle I'm thinking about the journey of this piece of furniture and how things can come back to you.
That
It sounds like a piece of fiction, but it's a completely shaped essay about our relationship to our past and to things and how
Вот мінсь сома тон мінис нахін то анато персон.
was a great essay.
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