Ann Patchett
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1,333 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's just not picking too many of them or having too many of them that are boring.
You want to kind of just drop in, drill down briefly, make sure that you have
A good picture of the scene, even if you're thinking about Henry James, you know, even if you're thinking about a novel like Wings of the Dove, which is 800 pages and there are some long, slow scenes in there.
But there may be 20 or 30 pages and then he is going on to another moment, another moment.
Even Henry James isn't giving us every single turn of the character.
There's there's just editing.
the opposite.
I think I have one of the highest thresholds for boring
Around.
I I mean to wit, I read a lot of Henry James.
I I can really stick with things that are very slow and very quiet.
And also my husband always says I have the opposite of attention deficit disorder.
I have attention surplus disorder.
Leave me in a room and I can just stay on on point focused for an entire day.
My idea of a great adventure is
reading Proust in a hard back chair, you know?
Just staying really focused on one thing.
So it's no, it's not that I have a short attention span.
It's not even that I am writing to cater to a short attention span.
Uh-huh.
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