Fortified by advice and tips from Ann Patchett and Emma Straub, her fellow authors-turned-indie-booksellers, the author of 'Fates and Furies' and 'Matrix' readies to open her new bookstore, the Lynx, in downtown Gainesville, Fla., this spring. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
On 'Books, Beach, & Beyond,' which will return for a second season this summer, two pillars of the Nantucket literary community—bestselling novelist Hilderbrand and Nantucket Book Foundation president Ehrenberg—talk shop with such star guests as Colleen Hoover, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Ann... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
“I have only the vaguest understanding of what TikTok is,” Patchett insists. And yet she and her bookstore, Parnassus Books, have become microcelebrities on the app thanks to the shop's savvy marketing manager, Sarah Arnold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Patchett’s collection is built around an essay she wrote about an unexpected friendship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-26 11:43:51 UTC ]
Bestselling author Ann Patchett talks about book tours, Tom Hanks and 'These Precious Days,' her new book of essays. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-11-23 14:00:12 UTC ]
In her essay collection “These Precious Days,” the novelist and bookstore owner explores friendship, marriage and mortality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-19 15:41:34 UTC ]
Coming in November: Sam Quinones, Ann Patchett, Emily Ratajkowski, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Gary Shteyngart, Natashia Deón — and the list goes on. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-10-29 13:00:45 UTC ]
ANN PATCHETT IS an American writer and independent bookseller who has authored eight novels, three books of nonfiction, co-authored a children’s book, and edited two books of essays. Her latest novel is The Dutch House, which was released this September. Patchett has received numerous awards and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-11-12 20:00:45 UTC ]
This week: new books from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ann Patchett, Patti Smith, Chris Ware, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Ann Patchett’s new novel is a moving story of siblings who lose everything—except each other. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 09:22:01 UTC ]
Amazon, apparently intent on fostering the illest of will among book lovers, is opening a store directly across the street from Nashville’s Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore founded by Ann Patchett and Karen Hayes in 2011. (Full disclosure: I visited the store for the first time this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-26 16:58:35 UTC ]
Thirty finalists, including the author of 'Swing Time,' Zadie Smith, 'LaRose' author Louise Erdrich, and 'Commonwealth' author Ann Patchett, are up for NBCC Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roxane Gay, Lesley Stahl, Ann Patchett, and Kim Scott talk about diversity and the business of bookselling. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: Ian McEwan's new novel, which is narrated by an unborn baby, plus novels from Ann Patchett and Alan Moore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are a lot of heavy hitters at this year's BEA, but four titles consistently came up in conversations with book buyers: Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad,' 'The Nix' by Nathan Hill, 'Commonwealth' by Ann Patchett, and 'The Girls' by Emma Cline. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
After a rough patch of anxiety over the state of publishing, the reading public, and her own writing, Jane Hamilton has come up with a novel about heartland America that is being praised by a range of writers, including Karen Joy Fowler, Ann Patchett, and Tom Perrotta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Public Library Association President Carolyn Anthony faces a dilemma. “There’s so much I’m looking forward to that it’s hard to know where to start,” she says, when asked for her perspective on the division’s upcoming biennial conference, set for March 11–15 in Indianapolis, Ind. “I look forward... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]