35 min

07: Taken Captive by Anne Patchett - The Dutch House, The Magician's Assistant, State of Wonder, and other Patchett masterpieces Diving In

    • Books

Virginia and Louise devote an entire episode to the wonderful writing of American novelist Ann Patchett. They discuss her skill at weaving momentous intergenerational sagas and her deft and intuitive understanding of familial relationships, marriages and siblings.


Books – all by Ann Patchett


The Dutch House, 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Magician’s Assistant, 1998. Harper Collins
Commonwealth, 2016. Harper Collins
State of Wonder, 2001. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Bel Canto, 2001. Harper Collins.


The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2019. One World, Penguin Random House.


Podcasts


Here’s The Thing – Alec Baldwin, WNYC Studios, New York Public Radio
The Daily – The New York Times


Newspapers
#Your Right to Know Campaign
The Australian Newspaper – ‘Sources Scared into Silence’ by Hedley Thomas discusses his history with ‘Toni Hoffman’ the nurse who was the whistleblower in the case of Dr Jayant Patel, October 2019

Virginia and Louise devote an entire episode to the wonderful writing of American novelist Ann Patchett. They discuss her skill at weaving momentous intergenerational sagas and her deft and intuitive understanding of familial relationships, marriages and siblings.


Books – all by Ann Patchett


The Dutch House, 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Magician’s Assistant, 1998. Harper Collins
Commonwealth, 2016. Harper Collins
State of Wonder, 2001. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Bel Canto, 2001. Harper Collins.


The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2019. One World, Penguin Random House.


Podcasts


Here’s The Thing – Alec Baldwin, WNYC Studios, New York Public Radio
The Daily – The New York Times


Newspapers
#Your Right to Know Campaign
The Australian Newspaper – ‘Sources Scared into Silence’ by Hedley Thomas discusses his history with ‘Toni Hoffman’ the nurse who was the whistleblower in the case of Dr Jayant Patel, October 2019

35 min