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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But no one's going to take away their phones or their guns because we don't ban things we love.
We feel like we have to ban something to show that we're concerned citizens, and then we ban books.
So from a distance, everything looks absolutely cataclysmically awful.
Up close, it can look pretty good.
in that people are kind.
People come into the bookstore all day long and I see them interested in reading but also interested in one another, really nice to the staff.
I don't know.
I see so much goodness in the world.
And I think that that is the counterbalance.
If we're always looking at things that are far away and never noticing that here we are, two people we just met.
We're having a really warm conversation.
Everybody here has been so lovely.
That's not to discount the horrible things that are going on in the world that we need to work on helping, solving, and fixing.
that people read, that people are reading, that people do really care about books, that people really care about librarians and school teachers.
And there are people in Nashville who go down to the state capitol every day to protest the firing of a school librarian who refused to move certain titles off the shelf, who just keep showing up.
Bless them.
So getting recommendations from me is really lousy in a lot of ways because I am always recommending books that are so far out.
First, I will say 2026 is the best year for fiction that I have seen since we've opened the bookstore.
Oh, my goodness.
That's quite a claim.
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