Well known author Ann Patchett and debut novelist Lindsay Lynch both spoke Oct. 21 to a large audience at the Southern Festival of Books at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville.

It tells the story of a group of strangers taken hostage somewhere in Latin America. It's lyrical and heartbreaking and it has been adapted into an opera and a movie. Overall, it's been a massively ...

New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett shares how her illustrator and friend, Robin Price Glasser, inspired her new children’s book, “The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts.” Patchett ...

PATCHETT: And here's the thing - if I tried to tell you what that meant, I would be wrong. The only thing that I know for sure is that whatever I know is wrong. MARTIN: I'm Rachel Martin, and this is ...

Ann Patchett is happy at home. The bestselling novelist is publishing her second book of essays, but she has no plans to go on a conventional book tour — possibly ever again. Instead, she is happy to ...