#522: Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer

Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace,
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Anne Lamott (@AnneLamott) uses honesty,
empathy, and humor to write about our world. In her beloved and
bestselling books, like Operating Instructions (an
account of her son’s first year), Bird by Bird (her
classic book on writing), and Help, Thanks, Wow (a
celebration of prayer), Lamott delves into what makes us human.
She explores the wide experience of life that unites us: birth
and death, parenthood and family, faith and doubt, love and loss,
forgiveness and hope.


In each of her 19 books, which have sold millions of copies
worldwide, Lamott brings her distinctive mix of bracing candor,
clarifying insight, and refreshing humor to convert serious
subjects like addiction, motherhood, loss, and faith into human
truths we can all share. She is the author of several essay
collections on faith, including Traveling
Mercies, Grace (Eventually), and Plan B, as well as
several novels, including Imperfect Birds, Blue Shoe,
and Rosie.


Lamott has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and has
taught at UC Davis and writing conferences across the country.
She is an inductee of the California Hall of Fame and the subject
of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock’s
documentary Bird by Bird with Annie (1999).


Her most recent book is Dusk, Night, Dawn: On
Revival and Courage.


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