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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
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it's not enough that you read to them they have to see you reading i remember when i was a kid if my parents were reading a book they were having a conversation with an adult another adult yeah and in the same way that if your mother was talking to another adult you didn't walk into the room and interrupt that conversation and they always said that's what reading a book is
So you have to be respectful of that and you have to model how important reading is.
You have to be able to think in a long format way.
You have to be able to see a larger picture.
And that's what we get from books.
What matters is that you read, and people read in all sorts of different ways.
I like a physical book, and I sell physical books, but do I care if you are reading on your phone?
I don't get it, but I'm glad you're reading.
Right.
Something that just blows my mind, at least once a week, somebody will write to me at the bookstore and say, my sister and I are having an argument, and she says that audiobooks don't count.
But I think audiobooks do count.
The notion...
That so many people think that audio books don't count, that somehow receiving information through your ears instead of through your eyes is a lesser experience, I think is hogwash.
Sure.
Meryl Streep read my last book, Tom Lake.
And I always say, if somebody said, I listened to that book, I'm so happy.
It is a better book if you listen to it.
And people think that's self-effacing, but think about it.
It's my talent with Meryl Streep's talent on top of it.
It hasn't had any impact on my work as a bookseller.
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