Anne Lamott is interviewed about her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, on NPR’s Morning Edition

Anne Lamott speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne about asking for guidance, offering gratitude and expressing wonder. To listen to the interview or read the highlights, click here!

Anne Lamott discusses grandmotherhood and her book Some Assembly Required

Anne Lamott, author of Some Assembly Required, writes in O Magazine about how to live a life that satisfies the soul

"I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness was not only the most delicious, amazing thing on Earth but it was also quantum," Lamott writes. "It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads." To read the full essay, click here.

 

The Chicago Tribune interviews Anne Lamott about her novel Imperfect Birds

Anne Lamott discusses novel-writing versus essay-writing with the Chicago Tribune and explains why her characters in Imperfect Birds are "my favorite people I've ever worked with." More...

Anne Lamott for Salon on Why She Hates Mother's Day

Although Anne Lamott has loved being a mother, she has never made her son Sam celebrate Mother's Day.  Find out why in her most recent piece for Salon.

Bookslut on Anne Lamott’s “endearing” Imperfect Birds

“Imperfect Birds is a carefully rendered story of a family in crisis. Lamott’s writing is suffused by her trademark candor and ability to find significance in the mundane details of her protagonists’ lives that make them relevant to her readers.” more…

Anne Lamott on The Big Think

Anne Lamott Talks Candidly with Salon

Anne Lamott fesses up to Salon about the qualities she shares with her characters, the trials of parenting a teenager, the joys of flying in new underpants, and her “elegant” newest novel Imperfect Birds.

The New York Times Book Review calls Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds "pitch perfect."

"Powerful and painfully honest…Throughout this admirable novel, Lamott’s observations are pitch perfect — likably, even brutally unsentimental, not just about parental hopes and anxieties but about the particular and touching fragility of simply being a teenager." more...

NPR Praises Anne Lamott’s Imperfect Birds: It's a book that will “provide solace to many.”

NPR: “Reading Lamott's latest installment about her long-running mother-daughter pair, Elizabeth and Rosie Ferguson, as they grapple with multiple A-list issues—addiction, authority, autonomy and approval—may take some readers back where they don't wish to go. But this issue-driven novel will no doubt provide solace to many more…Imperfect Birds highlights the anxiety of parenthood in 'a world aquiver with menace,' as Lamott put it in Crooked Little Heart." Plus, The Seattle Times says, "Imperfect Birds is about more than family dynamics and a problem kid…Lamott is doing what she does so well, teaching us about survival and charting the very rough road to redemption."