Ann Patchett’s Official Site; includes text and audio excerpts from Run http://www.annpatchett.com/run.html

An Interview with Elizabeth McCracken and Ann Patchett in Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts (Fall 2005) http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/features/mccracken_patchett_031606/index.htm

LION's Ann Patchett page with links to criticism and biography

Britannica Online page on Ann Patchett http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9438484

Original essay for Powell’s Books; discusses writing Run
"Setting the Story". Ann Patchett (2007)

Bookpage.com review & interview with Patchett (2007) http://www.bookpage.com/0710bp/ann_patchett.html

Minnesota Public Radio audio interview with Patchett (10/22/2007)
Talking Volumes with Ann Patchett

Reviews and Reading Guides

Bloomsbury.com review (2008) http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/Press.asp?id=348&section=1

New York Times Book Review (9/20/2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/books/20masl.html

New York Times Book Review ( 9/30/2007)http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/Cohen-t.html

The New Yorker review (10/01/2007) http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/10/01/071001crbo_books_updike

Reading guide by Book Browse http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=2032

Reading guide by LitLovers.com http://www.litlovers.com/guide_run.html

Books & Articles for More on Run Themes

Interracial Adoptions

“Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and the Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption.” Laura Briggs. Gender & History 15 (2003):179-200.

The Ethics of Transracial Adoption. Hawley Fogg-Davis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).

Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption. Barbara Katz Rothman(Boston: Beacon Press, 2005).

Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and SunYung Shin, eds. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006).

Boston-Irish in Politics

The Boston Irish: A Political History. Thomas H. O'Connor (Northeastern University Press, c1995)

The Boston Irish Reporter [electronic resource]

Joseph P. Kennedy: The Mogul, the Mob, the Statesman, and the Making of an American Myth. Ted Schwarz (John Wiley & Sons, c2003)

The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings. Thomas Maier (Basic Books, c2003)

Boston Politics: The Creativity of Power. Tilo Schabert (W. de Gruyter, 1989)

Vocation/Finding One’s Calling

Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling. Richard J. Leider, David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler, c2001)

Called by God: A Theology of Vocation and Lifelong Commitment. Marie Theresa Coombs and Francis Kelly Nemeck (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001)

Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone By Name. Germain Grisez, Russell Shaw (Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Division, c2003)

Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be. edited by Mark R. Schwehn & Dorothy C. Bass (William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2006)

Professions of Faith: Living and Working as a Catholic edited by James Martin, Jeremy Langford (Sheed & Ward, 2002)

What Color is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press, 2004)

Journal of Career Assessment [electronic resource] (Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc., c1993-)

Social Conflict/Class Struggle and Race Relations

Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. edited by Scott G. McNall, Rhonda F. Levine, Rick Fantasia (Westview Press, 1991)

Approaches to Class Analysis edited by Erik Olin Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Biosocial Aspects of Social Class. edited by C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor (Oxford University Press, 1990)

Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. Oliver Cromwell Cox (Monthly Review Press, c2000)

Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations. edited by Herńán Vera, Joe R. Feagin (Springer, c2007)

The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice. Howard Winant (University of Minnesota Press, c2004)

Race and Reparations: A Black Perspective For the Twenty-first Century. Clarence J. Munford (Africa World Press, c1996)

Readings on Marquette University's Mission of faith, justice, and Ignatian spirituality. Click here for the Raynor Memorial Libraries' research starting points guide for this topic.

MARQCAT Subject headings (to locate more books)

Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and government
Career Changes
Career Development
Family Psychological Aspects
Interracial Adoption
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts --Boston
Political Ethics United States
Race Identity African Americans
Race Relations
Religion and Politics
Single Parent Families
Social Classes
Vocation
Vocational Guidance