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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Kate DiCamillo, the brilliant children's author, called and said, every kid who comes in the store that day, I will buy them a book.
Whatever they want, send me the bill.
And to say things are as hard as they could possibly be, come here, come and we'll be together.
Before I opened Parnassus, I was for years on the library board in Nashville.
And so those people at the library are my friends.
We have hired several retired librarians who have come from the library to the store.
So we have a really good partnership.
And we do events together often.
We use each other's spaces.
We...
help them fundraise.
We're just really there for one another and people say, oh, that's crazy.
Those are free books and we're trying to sell books.
It's not that at all.
We're readers and we need to make a place for all readers in all different ways.
Yeah, even at TED, I've had so many people come up and say, I used to be such a reader.
Right.
but not anymore, now I'm too busy, and now I have to read all the things on my phone.
And I think maybe the most compelling case for actually reading a physical book that I can make to these people is, okay, you want your children to be readers, right?
You don't want your children to just spend their whole life scrolling on their phones.
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