Ann Patchett

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
New Books Tuesdays

Oliver Sacks! Dante! Queer folktales! 20 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  November 5, 2024
The Craft of Writing

Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

By Literary Hub  September 6, 2024
Childless Cat Ladies

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

By Monica Cardenas  August 15, 2024
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian  June 27, 2024
How to Write

Coffee, Booze, Undressing, Deprivation: How Writers Get in the Mood to Write

By Caitlin Shetterly  June 24, 2024
Perspective

Literary Rashomon: 10 Novels with Rotating Perspectives

By Shilpi Somaya Gowda  March 26, 2024
Audiobooks

The Best Audiobooks of 2023

By AudioFile Magazine  December 1, 2023
Love and Romance

Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

By Hannah Sloane  November 10, 2023
Rereadings

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

By Ann Patchett  October 9, 2023
Audiobooks

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of August

By Literary Hub  August 31, 2023
New Books Tuesdays

27 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 1, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

By Literary Hub  August 1, 2023
Talk Easy

Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself

By Talk Easy  July 25, 2023
Pandemics

What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

By Emma Staffaroni  April 20, 2023
The Hub

Watch President Biden award Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan their National Humanities Medals today.

By Janet Manley  March 21, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Kate DiCamillo on Seeing Her Book, The Magician’s Elephant, Adapted for Film

By Kate DiCamillo  March 17, 2023
The Hub

Co-opening a bookstore is the new driving off a cliff with your bestie.

By Janet Manley  March 8, 2023
Paperbacks

19 paperbacks to be grateful for this November.

By Katie Yee  November 1, 2022
Reading List

The People Who Show Up for You: A Reading List of Unconventional Families

By Amy Feltman  May 26, 2022
Best of the Year

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2021

By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
The Hub

11 new books to be grateful for this week.

By Katie Yee  November 23, 2021
Writing

Ann Patchett on Creating the Work Space You Need

By Ann Patchett  November 23, 2021
Reading Lists

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

By Emily Temple  September 22, 2021
Family Stories

The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

By Tracey Lange  August 4, 2021
Bookstores

7 Author-Owned Bookstores That You Should Visit

By Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss  April 23, 2021
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