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Posts by Anne Lamott

ATG Tickets

The husband and I are taking our show to the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston tomorrow night, Monday:

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Spruce Peak Arts - Upcoming Events | Stowe, VT Non-profit organization located in Stowe, VT. Offering year-round live entertainment of music, theater and dance. See our upcoming events!

Hi Burlington and Stowe, Vermont. Come spend an evening with my husband and me tmrw night, Saturday: www.sprucepeakarts.org

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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...

You guys. Good Writing is the most entertaining and succinct writing book to come out in years. It belongs on your writing shelf with Aristotle, Strunk & White, King, Newman and well, Lamott. @annelamott.bsky.social and @nealallen.bsky.social, please forgive the cliche - it's an instant classic.

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Anyone can write better. Anne Lamott shows us how again, this time with her 'current husband' The 'Bird by Bird' author and Neal Allen discuss their new book 'Good Writing' and their late-in-life romance.

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Day-before-publication jitters. Got up early to spend time with my rabbi, Yoko, who recommended rest, breath, and random moments of silliness.
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Dani Shapiro, Anne Lamott, and Neal Allen on Good Writing Event by Anne Lamott on Tuesday, March 3 2026

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ANNE F-ING LAMOTT!!!!! Dangerous Reader!

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SO NOW WHAT? SO NOW WHAT?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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/

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