On the Shelf Tom Lake By Ann PatchettHarper: 320 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent…
Author and indie bookstore owner Ann Patchett will join the L.A. Times Book Club Dec. 9 to discuss “The Precious Days,” her bestselling new essay collection.You can watch Patchett in…
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…