The author of one of the publishing world’s breakout hits of 2025 nearly gave up on writing. It took two decades of ...
It took decades for Virginia Evans to finally publish her debut novel. Now, the book Ann Patchett deemed "a unicorn" has ...
The heroine is a grouchy, 73-year-old retired lawyer at odds with her daughter and her garden club. The story is told in the ...
Jenna Bush Hager and Ann Patchett are opening up about book bans, which PEN America recently reported have risen over 200% during the 2023-2024 school year. On the Oct. 31 episode of Bush Hager’s ...
The writer Ann Patchett does not have children. This is by choice. And being a writer, she has written about her reasons. I have just enough energy to write, Patchett says, keep up with the house, be ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up quarantining with Tom Hanks' personal assistant. I get asked ...
In her introduction, Patchett writes of revisiting previously published essays in putting together the book. “Through these essays, I could watch myself grappling with the same themes in my writing ...
Ann Patchett needs no introduction. She might be America’s favorite novelist, with books that sell instantly and forever: “Bel Canto,” “State of Wonder,” “Commonwealth,” “The Dutch House.” Her latest, ...
Five years later, she has a new novel, “Speak to Me of Home,” which draws directly from her family’s history in Puerto Rico and the Midwest. By Alexandra Alter Scorching-hot westerns, seafaring ...
En las tiendas de libros de todo Estados Unidos, algunos de los vendedores más populares tienen cuatro patas, orejas inquietas y bigotes. By Elisabeth Egan At shops across the country, some of the ...