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Anne Lamott is digging around in the hatch of her VW Bug, which means the bumper sticker that reads "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" is, appropriately enough, pointed heavenward. "Does anyone need a water for church?" she asks. "Say yes," her friend urges. "It'll make her happy." Lamott looks up, grinning...
Lamott is accustomed to laughing at herself. The essayist and novelist has spent much of the past 30 years chasing profound truths, pinning them to the page and then dousing them with self-deprecating humor. She makes life's terrifying challenges seem small enough to hold in your hand, cameos to contemplate rather than big pictures to overwhelm, whether it's writing a book (Bird by Bird), finding faith (Traveling Mercies) or saying farewell to a loved one (Hard Laughter). See the all TIME 100 novels...
Lamott has written so much about Sam in her nonfiction--her breakthrough book was 1993's Operating Instructions, a memoir about her first chaotic year of single motherhood--that fans pepper her with questions about him at readings "until I'm like, 'Enough about Sam,'" she jokes. As insatiable as the interest is, she is protective of his life. "People feel like they know me and Sam," she says, but "they know what I have chosen to share with them...
...years right after 1913 were an anxious time for Matisse. Born in 1869, he entered his mid-40s more visible than ever in the art world, but with work that to the French was still an eyesore. Though for the first time he was making enough money from his art to buy his family a comfortable house in a Paris suburb, much of his income derived from a single Russian patron, Sergei Shchukin, a wealthy merchant willing to fill his drawing room with Matisse's most difficult pictures while Moscow society snickered. (See the top 10 art exhibitions...
...demo site. Topeka, Kans., renamed itself Google for the month of March. The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming in a shark tank as a publicity stunt. And Greenville organized a "We Are Feeling Lucky" campaign - a play on Google's second most famous search button - with enough glow sticks to form a massive Google logo in a downtown park. (See historical photos on Google Earth...