Run, She Said
Novelist Ann Patchett on friends, work and her exhaustion with family values.
Ann Patchett, it seems, has mastered the art of running forward. Like Bel Canto, her fourth novel, which describes a 24-hour hostage situation in the span of 295 pages, Patchett’s life is impressive but rather compact, a 44-year plot that can be mapped out in ideas and dreams that all point in a similar direction, sketched out and realized. Being a writer has always been her plan, she says, describing her rather unhindered success as “kind of boring.”
“You know,” she says, “if you asked me when I was 5 what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would’ve told you ‘a writer.’ I’m one of those few people who actually knew what they wanted to do and then went ahead and did it.”
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