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

It it's it makes you so proud to be part of this country and to know how hard people are working, people who don't ask for any credit, and they're giving their lives to save someone else's life, to save our life.

Time magazine asked a bunch of people if you could pick one book for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary that you feel that everyone in this country should read.

And I said, My book absolutely Who is Government?

You have to just meet them one at a time.

You I mean every person is going to be operating in a completely different way.

And that's the marvel of human life.

And I think also the terror of human life.

There's no one way.

Okay, and I should say I have a burner.

I have a I've got a cricket that I I pay for once a year.

It lives in my sock drawer.

I don't know the number.

No one else knows the number.

But if I am out on book tour, I will bring that phone and call my husband to say goodnight.

I've never texted

So anyway, like what is it?

I don't know.

I've certainly never had a smartphone and I've never carried a phone with me.

The hardest thing about it is it drives my husband out of his mind that I don't carry a phone.

But you know what?

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