When Anne Lamott was 37 and was trying on clothes with her best friend, Lamott asked the friend if her dress made her hips look too big. “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time,” Lamott’s friend said ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Lamott comforts and inspires with her autobiographical writing on addiction, faith, grief and ...

“Ham of God" is not spell check gone awry. It's the title of an essay in Anne Lamott's new book, “Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace." The collection of 23 essays — 10 new, the ...

Spirituality is never far from writer Anne Lamott's mind. The Bay Area writer, a recovering alcoholic, is a proud and very liberal Christian. She's written extensively about her own life, and about ...

Anne Lamott was not ready to be a grandmother. "I was a young fifty-five," she writes at the beginning of "Some Assembly Required," the follow-up to her best-selling memoir "Operating Instructions: A ...

In her newest book, “Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage” longtime best-selling author Anne Lamott considers where and how to find hope in bleak times, whether that darkness is in your own life ...

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with author Anne Lamott about ways to begin the new year on a positive and hopeful note. Let's face it - standing on the precipice of another new year can be daunting. It's this ...

Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...