Ann Patchett

1 month ago | audible.com | Michael Lewis |David Hare |Fang Fang |Ann Patchett

It’s been five long, interesting years since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the first global lockdowns helped shape a collective experience of isolation, fear, uncertainty, boredom, and even creativity as coronavirus spread around the world.

Nov 30, 2024 | readbyexample.substack.com | Amy Tintera |Ann Patchett |Matt Renwick

Today is Small Business Saturday. One of the best small businesses to support are independent book stores. If you are not lucky enough to have a book store in your city, you can buy books through Bookshop.org. A portion of the proceeds goes toward the book store of your choice. (All linked titles below go to my Bookshop affiliate page.)With that, here are my top five reads of 2024. Is this book horror, or historical fiction? Are the most frightening scenes also the most realistic parts of the story?

Nov 18, 2024 | lonelyplanetitalia.it | Ann Patchett

Questo racconto di Ann Patchett, pubblicato in origine nel 2016 nella Lonely Planet Travel Anthology, spiega come perdere un volo per Vienna possa regalare, a distanza di un anno, un magnifico nuovo inizio. La Stephansplatz di mattina presto. © Alexander Spatari/Getty Images Avevo 29 anni e vivevo in Montana con il mio ragazzo quando ricevetti una borsa di studio per un anno al Radcliffe College e mi trasferii da sola a Cambridge, in Massachusetts.

Nov 11, 2024 | lithub.com | Ann Patchett

If you’ve never read Bel Canto, this is not the place to start. Unmarked copies of this novel abound, and I suggest you get one of those if you want to come to the story without constant interruptions and an introduction that gives the plot away. If, after reading, you’re still interested, please come back. This special edition is for people who loved the book, or liked it well enough, or didn’t like it at all but still have questions. It’s for people who want to study or discuss it.

Oct 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ann Patchett

Tee Minot, propietaria de Christopher's Books en San Francisco, me escribió no hace mucho una carta sobre las alegrías de tener una librería. Al final de la misiva dijo que, si pudiera recomendarme un libro, sería This Is Happiness, de Niall Williams. Eché un vistazo en las estanterías de mi propia librería, Parnassus Books, en Nashville, dudando que tuviéramos un libro de bolsillo de 2019, pero ahí estaba.