Ann Patchett
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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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If you haven't read a novel in a while,
It may feel strange at first, but stick with it.
What you put in is what you'll get back.
What surprised me most about owning a bookstore, and practically everything about it surprises me, is that it's not just books people come in for.
Reading, that solitary endeavor, has proven to be a means of connection.
Our monthly book club at Parnassus is now so large, we've broken it into three sections.
We also have a classics book club and a romance book club, and once a year, those two groups come together to read a classic romance, most recently, Pride and Prejudice.
Our author events have ranged from Jeff Kenney to Percival Everett to Barbara Kingsolver to R.F.
Kuang to Ina Garten to Bono.
And whether it's presidential histories or mysteries, what we see is that books give people the means by which to connect.
The conversations may start with books, but they go everywhere.
Reading shines the light that disrupts the dark isolation so many people find themselves in.
Go to your local bookstore and see what I'm talking about.
Every time I change planes in O'Hare, I think about the Hare Krishna, a person I was afraid of, a person I had nothing in common with, a person whose only intention was to help me, both to find my gate and to find a force in the world greater than myself.
Through experience, we had both come to see that we were part of the larger human fabric.
He, through his faith, and me, through a different kind of faith.
Maybe this time we would sit at the gate a little bit longer, and I would ask him what he was reading.
I would tell him how much I admired the courage of his convictions.
I would thank him for helping me find my way.
Let's talk about reading first.
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