Ann Patchett

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TED Talks Daily · The art of the novel | Ann Patchett · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

And and Whistler is

emblematic of all that is loyal and true.

And in as the novel progresses,

Daphne comes to think of Eddie as Whistler, and Eddie comes to think of Daphne as Whistler.

So the horse just stands in the place of love and loyalty.

But somebody said to me a couple of weeks ago, this looks like the kind of book a fifth-grade girl who is crazy about horses would want to buy.

And I thought

That's exactly what I was going for.

That old fashioned horse book like Black Beauty or Black Stallion.

But in this one, the horse isn't hurt and there isn't a terrible ending.

But it is the kind of book that or the kind of cover that Daphne would have liked when she was a little girl and Eddie was in her life.

Right.

Well let's go back to the aforementioned sister Nina, my nun who taught me to read in first through third grade, and I hated her.

I missed a ton of school in those years.

We moved around a lot.

I wandered in and out of the classroom.

I did not become a comfortable reader until I was in the third grade.

And Sister Nina stayed on me, kept me in from recess for years because she thought it was important that I learn how to read.

And I hated her for it.

All right.

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