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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It's just somehow one more thing I have to stand up for.
I was saying to a friend of mine recently, I feel like life these days is sitting in a bar in which all of these fights are breaking out and you look up and think, oh, that's not my fight.
oh, no, that's not my fight.
And then something happens and you're like, oh, God, all right, that's my fight.
Book banning, okay, I got to get up and get in the fight.
So book banning is...
truly ridiculous in that when we think of book banning, we think about Lady Chatterley's Lover and raking all of the copies into a pile and setting them on fire and smuggling one in from France in your luggage.
That's not book banning.
Book banning now means one person in the state of Florida who doesn't have any children at all can call a school and say,
I don't think they should teach Paradise Lost.
And so they pull it off the shelf pending review, pending a group of people who are going to sit down in Florida and read Paradise Lost and make a decision.
Guess what?
That's just not going to happen.
And so all these books are getting pulled.
It's just a ridiculous waste of time because it's not addressing the problem.
The problem is what do children have to fear?
Not Paradise Lost.
Children have to fear gun violence.
Children have to fear the things that they can so easily get on their phones.
Pornography, for example.
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