Anne Lamott

Good Writing by Neal Allen, Anne Lamott: 9798217046959 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books 36 ways to improve your writing Two writers show you how to turn a worthy sentence into a memorable one. Starting where The Elements of Style leaves off, Good Writing can improve your book, your essa...

Of course Anne Lamott's iconic Bird by Bird is always in the back of my mind when I write, and now we have another miracle of writing guidance by @annelamott.bsky.social and @nealallen.bsky.social. This should be on every writer's books-about-writing shelf! Pre-order below.

Good Writing by Neal Allen, Anne Lamott: 9798217046959 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books 36 ways to improve your writing Two writers show you how to turn a worthy sentence into a memorable one. Starting where The Elements of Style leaves off, Good Writing can improve your book, your essa...

Neal Allen & Anne Lamott have written a superb new book on writing. It is EXTREMELY clear & immediately useful. It will improve your writing. If that’s of interest to you, preorder below.❤️✍🏼

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MIXED UP LIFE AND ME I wrote a long piece the other day on the nature of evil—cruelty, stupidity, brutality—and how we resist, with Goodness, kindness, solidarity with those being crushed, mass non-violent protest, and st...

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Standing in solidarity with the Minnesota General Strike. We do what we can.

BROCCOLI We are not crazy.

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Anne Lamott (@annelamott) HELLO BAY AREA: My personal husband Neal Allen and I have a book out on March 17, called Good Writing. We are celebrating that night at the majestic Curran Theatre in San Francisco, talking about al...

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A BAD WEEK This week has felt like the bad shift when winter first begins and all of a sudden in the morning it's dark, and it is dark in the early evening, and the whole day becomes elliptically squeezed.

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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

THE LAMOTT ANTI-DIET PROGRAM Here is a version of the anti-diet piece I publish every year just before New Year’s Day:

Here is the annual Lamott Anti-Diet Program: open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...

MY FLAG TOO A great friend was visiting from the East Coast last week and we took a walk in rain jackets under a pitiless blue sky.

MY FLAG TOO
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Anne Lamott (@annelamott) Here is the official announcement of a new book and a great offer:

Here is the official announcement of the new writing book that my current husband and I have written, that will publish in March. You can get 3 chapters now if you preorder:
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WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? MY HUSBAND CREATED A SUBSTACK FOR ME

My current husband Neal Allen created substck page for me:
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Opinion | Does Trumpland chaos bode better times ahead? I say yes. Happy Fourth! If difficult times mean something good is trying to be born, let’s celebrate this Independence Day.

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Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.

Contributor: Why I'm going to a 'No Kings' rally against Trump, and you should too It'll do you good. It'll do our democracy good. This Saturday is our chance.

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Trump is turning our military away from our historic partnership with Europe towards a new enemy - blue America.

Opinion | The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.

Here's the gift link to my piece in yesterday's Post:
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Anne Lamott Anne Lamott. 644,244 likes · 2,130 talking about this. Author

You can read my new Post piece at Facebook:

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Opinion | Loving the nickel life Could it be true that I was born for a time like this?

Here is the gift link to a new piece I wrote for this mornings Washington post. You don't need to be a subscriber:
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Here’s a new piece I posted on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott

Here’s my new piece at the Washington Post. You don’t have to subscribe although you have to give them your email: wapo.st/4iY3aAf

WRITERS: come hear the legendary writer Elissa Altman and me discuss her new book Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create. Tomorrow, Thursday night, 3/13 at 5:00 PT. Think of it: permission to write what has always been inside you. m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/

Los Angeles Times — AI responses to an Anne Lamott column: Different views on the topic • Critics might argue Lamott's focus on individual spiritual renewal dangerously minimizes the urgency of structural political action, particularly given her dismissal of Musk/Trump conflicts as comic fodder rather than existential threats to democracy!61. • Her analogy comparing national crises to 12-step programs ("trust and surrender") could be seen as passive compared to direct challenges to power structures, echoing critiques that 12-step models prioritize personal acceptance over systemic change 3116] • While Lamott cites 1960s anti-war protests as evidence small actions create change, opponents note today's polarized media landscape and authoritarian leanings require more confrontational tactics than her proposed "community organizing" and boat-building symbolism 41161.

Very laugh-til-you-cry: WaPo Opinions declined a chagrined column by American icon and reader fave @annelamott.bsky.social—in fairness, it is NOT an ode to the free market—so she took it to the LAT. There, of course, it was auto-countered by AI…calling for REVOLUTION www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: In these dark Trumpian days, look for the first shoots of collective action We are hitting bottom, where there’s nothing left to do but to give in to what you can’t control. It’s time for trust and surrender. And connecting.

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A DIFFERENT WAY ONLY I KNOW, ONLY I KNOW. Trump: “Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don’t think they have a choice. I also think Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way—a different way that only I know, only I know—they have no choice.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8f...

Ash Wednesday: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/

Agreed. Hope there's a list in the morning. Hooray for the disruptors.

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

Neal Allen on X: "Stay calm in troubling times: a retreat with @NealFAllen and @ANNELAMOTT. Easy-to-learn methods to reduce anxiety while acting decisively. July 26-August 2?in Costa Rica. https://t.co/VVDhf6ocC6" / X Stay calm in troubling times: a retreat with @NealFAllen and @ANNELAMOTT. Easy-to-learn methods to reduce anxiety while acting decisively. July 26-August 2?in Costa Rica. https://t.co/VVDhf6ocC6

A sweet week in Costa Rica—workshops, ocean, rain forest, yoga, great food, and —you know me—daily 12-step meetings. Neal’s work w/clients is about tools to tame the inner critic, which keeps us anxious, small, terrified of making mistakes. Me? I know something about writing.

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