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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And speak up for teachers and librarians who are doing the jobs that they've been trained for.
Also, you can just read a book.
Do you wish that people read books instead of, say, constantly scrolling on their phones?
Then read books.
Do you want your children to be readers?
Then model that behavior.
Of course you're going to read to them, but they also have to see you read.
Like all the people who told me not to open a bookstore, you may be wondering if books are even relevant in this golden age of technology.
Think of it this way.
Every piece of information coming out of your computer or phone is a single thread.
At any given moment, you are holding countless threads which range in quality from vital to worthless.
What a novelist does is takes all of those threads and weaves them into a tapestry.
Maidens, unicorns, pear trees.
This is no small job, but when it's done right, the outcome is both beautiful and enduring.
Novels teach us empathy by putting us into another person's life, and they define our history by showing us how we've changed and will continue to change.
Think of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Now, think of John Updike.
And if this wasn't reason enough to love books, they also help us develop and preserve what I like to call a long-format brain.
The problems of the world cannot be seen one thread at a time, nor can they be solved.
The ability to think with depth and complexity is greatly enhanced by reading more than 280 characters at a time.
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