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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You're going to be there every day, not me.
You should get to win.
You should get to pick the name.
And then she retired.
And then she retired and left me with a bookstore called Parnassus Books.
And there are the t-shirts and there are the pencils and the notebooks.
And I can't change the name.
That's quite a legacy though.
Everything about it was a surprise.
I guess that the unanticipated...
challenge is how it has affected my reading life.
Because I used to read Henry James over and over.
I've read The Awkward Age twice.
Not a whole lot of people can say that.
That's just gone from my life.
Everything I read now is a book that hasn't been published.
And I almost never get to reread and really to go back and read a classic that I'd never read before on this trip.
I brought Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the Heart because I thought it's a really long flight.
Oh, okay.
I was interviewing Louise Erdrich, and we were talking about rereading, and she said the book she goes back and rereads every year is Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the Heart, which, by the way, I had never heard of.
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