Sorrow & Serendipity

What surprising joy chance and calamity brought into Ann Patchett's life

Novelist Ann Patchett, on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’

‘Pay attention, I told myself. Pay attention every minute.’

Here is a non-fiction account from Harpers magazine, by the novelist Ann Patchett, of how she met Tom Hanks, and through him got to know his personal assistant, Sooki Raphael. In the story, Patchett writes, “Pay attention, I told myself. Pay…