{"id":7911,"date":"2017-10-09T06:33:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2017-10-09T06:33:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:33:36","slug":"ann-patchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/ann-patchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Patchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributed by John Menier<\/em><\/p>\n

\"8232\"<\/a>Listed by Time magazine as one of the world\u2019s 100 most influential people in 2012, Ann Patchett is a true woman of letters: novelist, essayist, anthologist, and co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville. Patchett is also a frequent and accomplished public speaker, noted for her anecdotes about the literary life, her insights into the creative process, and her wry wit.<\/p>\n

One of Patchett\u2019s favorite topics is the ever-changing relationship between readers and books. As an example she cites her own evolution reading (and re-reading) the works of John Updike, Leo Tolstoy, Pearl Buck, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others, noting that \u201cthe books don\u2019t change, but we do.\u201d Put another way, the reader\u2019s evaluation of a particular book is shaped as much by the reader\u2019s life experience and circumstances as by the work\u2019s innate qualities. As such our appreciation (or lack thereof) for a particular title may change over time, but the consistent commonality among the books we treasure is that they never fail to evoke a strong response. Patchett believes the writer\u2019s primary task is to elicit that response by inviting the reader to become an active participant in their story.<\/p>\n

Patchett\u2019s approach to the reading public is refreshingly un-elitist. She stresses the importance of what she calls \u201cgateway drugs,\u201d books of dubious literary worth that may encourage readers to explore other authors and genres. She applauds the success of \u201ctrashy\u201d pop novels such as \u201cFifty Shades of Gray\u201d and \u201cTwilight,\u201d no matter their pedigree, for their role in re-vitalizing book sales and energizing the publishing community. What matters most to Patchett as both author and bookstore owner is that the reading habit is fostered and encouraged, and in that endeavor, there\u2019s no place for snobbery.<\/p>\n

Click here to watch An Evening with Ann Patchett<\/a><\/p>\n

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Contributed by John Menier Listed by Time magazine as one of the world\u2019s 100 most influential people in 2012, Ann Patchett is a true woman of letters: novelist, essayist, anthologist, and co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville. Patchett is also a frequent and accomplished public speaker, noted for her anecdotes about the literary life, her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199,30,31,88,2],"tags":[399,400,401,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}