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Sep 13

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Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community

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If you shop at the East Nashville Farmers’ Market you can buy fruits and vegetables; but you can also meet a famous author with a stop by the traveling bookmobile. Ann Patchett is a co-owner of the Parnassus Books, founded…

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Dec 30

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Bestselling authors share their favorite books of 2014

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What did our favorite authors read this year? Jeffrey Brown asks novelist Ann Patchett and business writer Daniel Pink for their top recommendations of 2014, including a young adult novel written in verse and a book about humanity’s place in…

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Dec 30

Authors Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink talk what makes a great book

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Ann Patchett, author of “This is the Story of a Happy Marriage” and Daniel Pink, author of “To Sell is Human,” sat down with Jeffrey Brown in Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore to talk about the factors that make a…

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Dec 30

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Bestselling authors share their favorite books of 2014

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Dec 13

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Friday, December 13, 2013

We examine a shooting at a Colorado high school, a gunman shot two then killed himself.

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Dec 13

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Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays

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Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays…

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Dec 13

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Ann Patchett gets personal in her new collection of essays, ‘This is the Story of a Happy Marriage’

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// Ann Patchett reflects on fiction version nonfiction and the state of books today in a conversation with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. "Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard." That's according to Ann Patchett, author of "Bel Canto" and…

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Nov 15

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Ann Patchett gets personal in her new collection of essays, ‘This is the Story of a Happy Marriage’

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// Ann Patchett reflects on fiction version nonfiction and the state of books today in a conversation with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. "Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard." That's according to Ann Patchett, author of "Bel Canto" and…

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Dec 28

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Book Critic Ron Charles Discusses Year’s Best Works of Fiction

Jeffrey Brown talks with book critic Ron Charles of The Washington Post about the best works of fiction in 2011 and the shape of the industry.

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Dec 21

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The Year in Fiction

Jeffrey Brown talks to Ron Charles of the Washington Post about the year in fiction.

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