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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Ann Patchett: ‘If writers are to survive we must take responsibility for ourselves and our industry’


The author discusses buying her own bookstore, the legacy of divorce and referring to herself in the third person
Ann Patchett 
‘Oh, if I could free myself from the tyranny of good deeds’ … Ann Patchett. Photograph: Heidi Ross for the Guardian
Hermione Hoby
Saturday 3 September 2016 15.00 BST Last modified on Monday 5 September 2016 
  •  In the windowpane above Ann Patchett’s desk is a small steel and enamel sign that reads: “What good shall I do this day?” This simple dictum is the engine of Patchett’s world, both on the page and off. In the Orange prize‑winning Bel Canto, comradeship, love and creativity bloom among terrorists and hostages; in 2011’s artful State of Wonder, a sensible research scientist faces not just the snakes and other terrors of the Amazonian jungle, but the dragon of her former medical lecturer. MORE
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