We’re taking the party hats off the books. So what’s it like there right now, in the wake of what Patchett describes as the “blinding crush” of holiday shopping? She says, “We’re picking up the champagne glasses and sweeping up the paper plates and napkins. Patchett is not only a veteran author - her eighth novel, “The Dutch House,” is in its 12th week on the fiction best-seller list - she is also the co-owner, along with Karen Hayes, of Parnassus Books in Nashville. She is not afraid to tell you what she thinks or to gently call you out on a book you mentioned just to impress her: “Did you really make it all the way to the end?” No, you have to admit, you did not.
2020 FORESIGHT Talking books with Ann Patchett is like playing Ping-Pong with a pro: You serve up a title and she volleys it back with a quick, clever and occasionally wicked spin.
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