Ann Patchett

I think what O’Connor sought in her music was anguish, laid bare, and then a gorgeous moment of communion.

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love was first published in the late summer of 1989, when I was twenty-five. In those pre-internet days, my best friend Lucy was living in Scotland, and we read the no…

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, by Heather Cox Richardson

5 “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them” by Timothy Egan

This Week In The Arts

"The King of the World" (Tator Tales #2), Ben Clanton, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2024. "The Greatest in the World" (Tator Tales #1), Ben Clanton, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2022.

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This piece from Ann Patchett, which was originally published in the Lonely Planet Travel Anthology in 2016, tells the story of when she misses a plane to Vienna, she puts the ticket to much better use a year later.

If you’ve never read Bel Canto, this is not the place to start. Unmarked copies of this novel abound, and I suggest you get one of those if you want to come to the story without constant interrupti…

Literature faculty member Emily Bloom 's memoir I Cannot Control Everything Forever has been named to TIME magazine's "100 Must-Read Books of 2024" list. The memoir, lauded by TIME for its "unfettered honesty", details Bloom's journey toward and through motherhood.