From her bookstore in Nashville, Ann Patchett drives the literary conversation

Ann Patchett opened a bookstore everyone said would fail. Now it's a blueprint

When she isn’t working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or recording a video birthday message for fellow author-bookseller Emma Straub, or beginning an interview with a plug for another admired peer. “The new Liz Strout book is the best,” she says of Elizabeth Strout’s “The Things We Never Say.” “You know, every single book she publishes, you just think, ‘O…

From her bookstore in Nashville, Ann Patchett drives the literary conversation

Ann Patchett often finds ways to help others, whether it's promoting a fellow author's book or supporting emerging writers.