Ann Patchett

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1,333 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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TED Talks Daily · The art of the novel | Ann Patchett · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

find something that you care about and show up for it because it will make you feel so much better.

And also while you're taking in the news of the horrors of the day.

Don't ever fail to overlook the news that's so wonderful.

I was giving a talk a couple of nights ago in Minneapolis.

And at the end of the talk, there are 800 people in a church and and I went to say, you know, just thank you.

For being such a shining example of everything those nuns taught me in school.

We are responsible for one another.

We must stand up.

For our neighbors and for our human family, and to be brave.

I mean, to be in that city is so unbelievably moving because the people in our own government who can't stand up against what's wrong, and yet people in the neighborhoods of Minneapolis at the risk of

their lives were going out to stand up for their neighbors.

Don't miss out on what's astonishing.

And also another book that you should absolutely read, just out in paperback, Michael Lewis's Who is Government?

Yes, it's oh did you read that?

Yes.

I listened to it on audiobook.

So yes, I did read it.

And the audio was fantastic.

But it's all of these essays of people doing jobs for the Food and Drug Administration, for the IRS, for the Department of Labor, jobs that you never knew existed within these federal workforce.

Yes.

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