Ann Patchett and an Audience!

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ann Patchett has written a new novel, and if you are a listener to this show, you know we are both huge fans of her work. Her newest, Whistler, is beautiful book about grace, kindness, the relationships we can’t let go and what we learn of ourselves in a crisis. When we asked if we could come down to Parnassus in Nashville TN, she said yes. So, with great enthusiasm we hopped on planes and did The Book Case in front of a live audience at her Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville. We also have the tail end of our interview with Jesmyn Ward. I mean…Jesmyn Ward AND Ann Patchett? Doesn’t get better than that. Join us. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: Whistler by Ann Patchett Bel Canto: The Annotated Edition by Ann Patchett The Dutch House by Ann Patchett These Precious Days by Ann Patchett The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Run by Ann Patchett This is the Story of a Marriage by Ann Patchett Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Taft by Ann Patchett Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.4	Well, welcome all of you.
0:29.9	Good to have you with us for another edition of the bookcase.
0:32.6	And I am really excited about it because of our guest, who is a literary hero of mine.
0:40.0	Or as Katie refers to her, as a literary crush of mine.
0:44.1	Yes, I think you find her, I think maybe the, I don't know, would the word beguiling apply?
0:49.7	I mean, she's smart, she's intriguing. She's lovely. She's Anne Patchett.
0:55.0	Smitten.
0:56.2	Smitten.
0:56.8	In deep smit.
0:58.6	But I think when we talked to her at this start, we found out that my father is maybe one of quite a few men that have fallen in deep smit with Anne Patchett.
1:08.1	And so he is a member of an honored club. But no, seriously, she's written a new
1:14.0	book called Whistler, which is, you know, I mean, what can you say about Anne Patchett? Like,
1:19.6	it's almost commonplace how good she is, but you shouldn't hold it as commonplace at all. Whistler,
1:24.8	I think, is another Anne Patchett masterpiece, and I loved everything
1:28.7	about the book, so I couldn't wait to go down to Nashville to talk to her about it. Yeah, that was a
1:33.6	treat for us. We don't get a chance to take the podcast on the road much, and we had a twofer. We
1:40.4	were going to talk to her, and then also do a piece for Good Morning America on Whistler
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