Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited
Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Revisited  
Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Published On: Tue Feb 25 2025
Description: In a remarkable and illuminating tour de force, the novelist recently took a fresh look at her best-known book, going through it line by line and annotating it with handwritten notes in the margins – notes on things she both loved and hated. “It shows,” she says, “a lot about how to write a novel.”