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And then, through a very strange twist of fate, it wound up getting published in Harper’s Magazine. I just was writing it to document this experience that Sooki and I had. I didn’t think that I would be able to do anything with it.Īnd I really wasn’t writing it thinking about publishing it.
You mentioned Sooki, and she’s obviously sort of the primary figure in the title essay for this collection, “These Precious Days,” and you write in that, you didn’t realize until you wrote that essay that this was a book.
It was very moving, the whole thing, just how really wonderful people were to the bookstore. So all of that was really good.Īnd even the bookstore, which we thought was going to go under and we would lose everything, people were so wonderful. My friend Sooki wound up getting stuck with us for a long period of time. We just really have good skill sets of staying in and being alone and working in our homes without direction. Well, my pandemic - I hate to say it was great, because, of course, the pandemic wasn’t great, but novelists have been in training for this their whole lives. What was your pandemic like? ann patchett I was just taking it one essay at a time. Maybe I’ll write an essay.” I wasn’t writing a book. And also, it wasn’t that I thought, “Now I’m going to write a collection of essays,” it was, “I don’t have anything to do today. Is that why you turned to a collection of essays? ann patchett In the introduction, you write that 2020 didn’t seem like a great time to start a novel. So it wasn’t quite the same reading experience, but also a completely delightful collection. And alas, this time, I read this in the pandemic in my house/office/prison. I read it by a fireplace in Vermont and just sank in. Because I have such a distinct memory of reading that book. This is your first essay collection in how many years? Because “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage” came out when? ann patchettĪre you just going to ask me the really hard, stumping questions right off the bat? pamela paul So we are here to talk about your most recent book, which is called “These Precious Days.” It is a collection of essays. She is, of course, a novelist, an essayist, a co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, and she joins us from Nashville. I’m Pamela Paul.Īnn Patchett joins us now. This is the Book Review Podcast from The New York Times. Plus, our critics will join us to talk about the books they’ve been reading and reviewing. Alexandra Alter will be here to talk about what’s going on in the publishing world. Ann will be here to talk about that book, “These Precious Days.”Īnd what goes into editing a collection of books about the Constitution? Political scientist Corey Brettschneider will join us to talk about the Penguin Liberty series. How did Ann Patchett spend her pandemic? Writing a new collection of essays.
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And before you can speak it, you’ve got to pray about it.Transcript Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’ Hosted by Pamela Paul Patchett talks about her new essay collection, and Corey Brettschneider discusses a series of books about liberty. “Before you can see it, you’ve got to speak it. JOHNSTON, PH.D., president, Christian Thinkers Society Sheila Walsh is a mighty woman of prayer, and therefore her book is not only vital for every woman to read but will also change the world, because prayer changes the world.” “The greatest thing one can do for God and others is to pray. The One to whom we can run to and rest in during times of trouble.”
Even without words, the posture of prayer brings us fully into the presence of the One who loves us unconditionally. “Martin Luther wrote, ‘To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.’ And that’s what Sheila reminds us of so beautifully in this book: prayer isn’t some stale religious discipline, it’s the incredible key to intimacy with our Creator Redeemer. JACK GRAHAM, senior pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church It is one of the best books you can possibly read. Gratefully, Sheila Walsh helps us make sense of ‘How to pray when you don’t know what to say.’ Praying Women will guide you on the greatest journey of your life as you learn to persevere in prayer no matter what. Yet prayer is our lifeline to God Himself.
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“Sometimes we don’t know why or even how to pray. This book will challenge you to think about prayer in a new way-one rooted in who God is, not who we are or who we want to be.”ĬHRISTINE CAINE, bestselling author and founder of A21 and Propel Women “In Praying Women, Sheila reminds us all that prayer is one of the greatest weapons we have to push back the darkness in our world.