In this broad essay collection (beloved by booksellers), Ann Patchett reflects on the writing life, significant friendships, bookstore ownership, and taking mushrooms (really!). I had read earlier versions of some pieces before—and maybe you have, too, because we shared them in Links I Love, but I enjoyed both revisiting those and reading her new work. While I adored peeking into Patchett’s writing life, my favorite essays in this collection center not on her authorial pursuits but on…

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters

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I love sibling stories and meaty family sagas, as well as stories told with a reflective, wistful tone. This one delivers on all counts. Cyril Conroy means to surprise his wife with the Dutch House, a grand old mansion outside of Philadelphia. But a symbol of wealth and success for some is a symbol of greed and excess to others—including, crucially, Cyril's wife—and the family falls apart over the purchase. In alternating timelines, we get the whole story, over five decades, from Cyril's son…

From Ali Wong's myth-puncturing manifesto to Call Me by Your Name's intimate sequel.

Award-winning author Ann Patchett talks to Joanne Finney about why she finds writing fiction so hard and the joy she gets from her bookshop and recommending novels to strangers

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The annual Eudora Welty Lecture remains virtual in 2021, which means this talk will be available for viewing through June 2022.

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