I’ll discuss how to get started, making a commitment to sticking with it, writing a terrible draft, editing, creative freedom and discipline, tricks and hacks to help you get some work done every day, and the hidden blessings of our year in quarantine. This workshop is a chance to spend three hours together where I can tell you everything I know about writing, and some of what I’ve learned about life during COVID College. Lamott discussed her book NPR's Day to Day in March.Ĭindy Crosby reviewed the book for your ticket now for admission to this live three-hour session! Audio of her comments is available at the Cathedral's website.

Lamott spoke at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Sunday. Winner also reviewed the book for The New York Times.Ĭhristianity Today interviewed Lamott in 2003. Lamott's Plan B: Further Thought on Faith, newly published in paperback, is available from and other book retailers. You don't have to agree with Lamott's politics to agree with her about that.Ĭopyright © 2006 Christianity Today. (''Help' is a prayer that is always answered.') She offers wisdom about getting through the narrow places in life, about hope, about resting in God's mystery, and about trusting God's justice. (Her son is now a teen, and Lamott is in her early 50sshe says she's finally figured out why people are supposed to have kids young: 'so that by the time your child is in his teens, one of you is stable some of the time, and you the mother are not racked with back pain and Alzheimer's.') There's wisdom about prayer. But even folks who don't share Lamott's sentiments about the current presidential administration will find both humor and insight in Plan B. She's just as funny as ever, but some readers have complained that she spends too much time venting her political spleen. Her latest volume of nonfiction, Plan B (available for the first time in paperback), has garnered mixed reviews. Sprinkled throughout both are her fiercely leftist, now fiercely anti-Bush politics. Then came the frank, funny, and fiercely honest Traveling Mercies, in which she described her own love affair with Jesus (a love that completely surprised her more than anybody).

Anne Lamott won a host of fans with Operating Instructions, her hysterical memoir about the first year of her son's life.

Plan B by Anne Lamott