Ann Patchett
speaker
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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To which I always say, Did you read about the children's crusades?
Did you read about the plague?
This is not the worst moment in human history.
And climb up the tree a little bit farther and see what you can say.
about what's positive.
It's not that you're ignoring what's negative.
But put something good out there in the world.
I used to do a lot of travel writing.
And every now and then I would get sent off on a cruise.
And somebody who was an editor at Travel and Leisure said to me, We only send the very best writers on cruises because nothing happens.
And and are you able to write an essay about a cruise ship in which nothing happens?
I was just going to say exactly that.
Yeah, they sent the very best writer of all on a cruise.
And that piece is riveting, in which all he's trying to do is figure out how he can make it back to his cabin to catch the person who is cleaning because he never sees the person who is cleaning.
Like
That's the tension and that's the answer.
That's the answer.
It takes a lot more skill to write about something where seemingly nothing is happening and he did it better than anybody.
actually.
lobster.
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