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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...
...book? I didn't write it for about 18 years because I thought that writing about your own life was self-indulgent. But then I thought about what kept me going through the darkest days, reading memoirs by other people who have struggled with depression - Kay Redfield Jamison, Anne Lamott - and who emerged even stronger and more capable...
Obama, President Barack • Anne Lamott is tired of all the sucking up by to the enemies of • upcoming speech to nation's schoolchildren by inspires hysteria among the lunatic right...
...fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy protospeech, dances at language's doorway." Cohen's amazing reserve of humor and honesty in the face of adversity--which includes occasional passes from her dad--recall such classics of domestic perseverance as Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions...
...ends meet when they are writing, let alone when they’re circling their typewriters with dusters and Windex. They cannot afford any semblance of office space. The problem has reached such a fevered pitch that there is a market for helping writers work: Natalie Goldberg and Annie Lamott have made careers not by selling their own fiction, but by writing entire books for other writers on how to sit down and write; I own an inspirational writing book with winners like, “Depression is surprisingly frequent in writers,” and “Just...