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Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel <em>Bel Canto</em> Twenty Years Later

Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

“Through annotation, I saw patterns in the book I’d scarcely been aware of...”

By Ann Patchett | November 11, 2024

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

"Bless the novels that provide accounts of the world that came before."

By Ann Patchett | October 9, 2023

Ann Patchett on Creating the Work Space You Need

Ann Patchett on Creating the Work Space You Need

The Author of These Precious Days on Navigating the Limitations of the Writing Life

By Ann Patchett | November 23, 2021

Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, <em>The Dutch House</em>

Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

In Conversation with Author Mary Laura Philpott

By Ann Patchett | September 23, 2019

Children's Books Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Backstory

Children's Books Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Backstory

Ann Patchett on Learning Some Unlikely Lessons

By Ann Patchett | October 1, 2018

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

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