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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Appearances
Time changes memory, but I remember him clearly.
He had on khaki pants and a pink Oxford shirt.
He had straight, sandy blonde hair and wire-rimmed glasses.
He looked like the young John Denver.
I gave him my ticket.
You are really lost, he said.
And then he took my extraordinarily heavy bag from my shoulder and the typewriter from my hand and said he would walk me to my gate.
Side note.
This was 1986.
I was shy and I was plain.
I was not the kind of girl whose typewriter was carried by men who looked like John Denver.
And my heart expanded with the wonder.
Together, we traversed many concourses, and I began to worry about the time.
I said, he shouldn't risk missing his flight so that I could make mine.
That's when he told me he didn't have a flight.
I asked him if he worked in the airport, and he said, yeah, sort of.
He said he was a Hare Krishna.
What a beautiful world it was when you could still get lost in an airport, when zinc plates sharp as meat cleavers filled your carry-ons, when Hare Krishnas, those dancing, chanting members of a religious sect, roamed freely from gate to gate.
I was terrified.
But of what?
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