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‘In a world that is going to hell, there is still so much joy’: Ann Patchett on finding happiness
The Nashville author’s essay, These Precious Days, prompted a global outpouring of love, and her new book celebrates the wonder of ordinary life.
She talks about running a bookshop, resisting censorship and taking inspiration from Madonna
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- The Guardian
It is 8am in Nashville, Tennessee and novelist Ann Patchett is bursting with sprightly enthusiasm.
“I washed my face,” she jokes. We’re barely a couple of minutes into our Zoom conversation and she has given me two “super-hot tips” for forthcoming novels that are going to “win everything” next year – Absolution by Alice McDermott and James, a…