Podcast Episodes featuring Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett: The Dutch House

World Book Club - March 01, 2024 12:10 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
Multi award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will be discussing The Dutch House. A dark modern fairytale set against the very real world of post-WWII Philadelphia, tracing the love between a brother and sister, their vanishing mother, distant father and jealous stepmother. Ann Patchett tells the...

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Ann Patchett - Archive Interview #601 (1/27/20)

Write The Book: Conversations on Craft - January 29, 2020 17:19 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
  An interview from the archives with the author Ann Patchett about her essay collection, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Harper Perennial).  Recent impeachment coverage has me remembering that, when I was nine years old, Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearings were on the television ever...

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Doha Diaries with 2022 World Cup Tips! Track and Field, Spacewalks, Chip + Joanna News, Ann Patchett

Satellite Sisters - October 08, 2019 22:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
We bring home the gold from the World Track + Field Championships in Doha, Qatar! Liz was behind-the-scenes and has sports news, art news and some travel hacks to share. Entertaining Sisters: Ann Patchett: Julie says "run don’t walk" to go see her on her 31 city book tour. Go to www.annpatchett.c...

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Ann Patchett on Novelists and the Sources of Empathy in Story

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - August 14, 2018 04:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
Ann Patchett is a best selling author with an uncanny ability to write amazing characters, who capture our imagination and hold us in their emotional grip. Alan Alda talks with Ann about her approach to writing and how empathy influences both her stories and her personal life. Support the show...

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Ann Patchett on opening up in fiction

Lit Up - July 22, 2018 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 117 ratings
Ann Patchett joins Angie from Nashville to discuss her not-to-be-missed novel, Commonwealth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Second Stop: Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN, with Ann Patchett and Jon Meacham

Book Tour with John Grisham - June 29, 2017 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 185 ratings
This week on Book Tour with John Grisham: Grisham visits Music City and talks with bestselling author Ann Patchett (BEL CANTO) about starting a bookstore and discusses writing about history with Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit...

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Ep 19: Ann Patchett On Humor, Heartbreak & "Commonwealth"

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady - March 28, 2017 17:58 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Ann Patchett is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville and the author of seven novels. In 2012, Time Magazine named her as one of their 100 Most Influential People in the World. The Bel Canto author recently joined "Just the Right Book" from her home in Nashville to talk about being a books...

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Ann Patchett & Elizabeth Gilbert on Writing

Library Talks - March 05, 2015 20:11 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Ann Patchett, the award-winning author of numerous books including “Bel Canto” and “State of Wonder,” joins her good friend Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the hit bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love,” to talk about the challenges and joys of their craft. In this thrilling conversation, Patchett and Gilber...

Books written by Ann Patchett

Truth and Beauty
Ann Patchett

17 Episodes - 257 pages - ★★★★ - 30K ratings

The Magician's Assistant
Ann Patchett

9 Episodes - 357 pages - ★★★★ - 24.5K ratings

The Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett

352 pages - ★★★★ - 24K ratings