Good novels are like good parties: You get the right mix of people together, and you never quite know what will happen. In Ann Patchett's new novel Commonwealth, a christening party takes a turn when ...

I get asked sometimes, who's your favorite author? And I'm always taken aback because it feels a little like asking a parent, who's your favorite child? Which, you know, I couldn't possibly choose.

It tells the story of a group of strangers taken hostage somewhere in Latin America. It's lyrical and heartbreaking and it has been adapted into an opera and a movie. Overall, it's been a massively ...

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 ...

Author Ann Patchett says she's comfortable being wrong. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR PODCAST) ANN PATCHETT: You know, there's so many things you want to be wrong about. I want to be wrong about climate ...

Look, we get it. Ann Patchett is reliably great. Her books are always best sellers. We know she’s busy running a book store and campaigning against censorship and also that finished novels don’t just ...

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A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Ann Patchett is a hugely popular writer. She was a Pulitzer finalist for her book The Dutch House. Her most recent novel, Tom Lake, was a New York Times ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up... Ann Patchett on the friendship that came from quarantining ...

Ann Patchett is owning her shortcomings. On Wild Card this week, she opens up about religion and the place that shaped her as much as any person did. Ann Patchett finds bits of Catholicism and America ...