A life lived well
Dec 03, 2021
3 minutes
By Hephzibah Anderson
Towards the end of her essay collection, Ann Patchett describes being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where a portrait of her now hangs alongside the likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos and Eudora Welty. “The picture I’d chosen to send was joyful,” she writes. “I’m showing all my teeth and am completely out of step with every serious and circumspect photograph surrounding me.”
At first brush, These Precious Days seems a similarly incongruous addition to the sizeable stack of recently published essays
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