Jezebel: Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott Is Cheesy, And That's Okay: A Re-Evaluation

Anna North — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Anne Lamott is a rare breed — a liberal Christian who writes publicly about faith, politics, and family. Her writing about spirituality has bothered me in the past — but a new interview may have won me over. More »

New York Times Hard-Pressed To Name Funniest Female Novelists

Jessica G. — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:30:00 EDT

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New York Times book critic David Kelly asked his fellow Times' writers to name the funniest novel ever, and he noted that not a single female author was nominated. "Where are the female nominees?" Kelly wonders. "Someone here mentioned Jane Austen, but only halfheartedly and only after I pointed out that not a single novel by a woman had been proposed. What gives?" Mediabistro says that Times commenters mention Paula Fox, Eudora Welty, and Stella Gibbons as some of the funniest female novelists, and best-selling writer Jennifer Weiner says that Helen Fielding, Gail Parent and Nora Ephron make her chortle. More »

Anne Lamott Opines On The Political Artist Formerly Known As Palin

Anna North — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Writer Anne Lamott hates Sarah Palin so much she's not using her real name anymore. Instead she's calling her "Claw Washout," which is what you get when you type "Sarah" into the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator (if you type in "Sarah Palin," you get "Flack Gobbler," which calls up the image of our favorite lipsticked pit bull devouring publicists). As much fun as the ol' SPBNG is to play around with (try typing in the names of Frank Zappa's kids for a weird-name match made in Heaven), it may not be a great idea to lift Sarah Palin to the status of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. More »

Anne Lamott Tells Stephen Colbert That God Is, In Fact, A 'She'

Anna Holmes — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Writer Anne Lamott — whose 1994 book Bird by Bird is well-known and much-loved by millions of frustrated, (mostly female?) writers — appeared in all her dreadlocked-glory on last night's Colbert Report to plug her new book Grace, Eventually, and talk politics, Sunday school, Jeremiah Wright and the fact that God is a female. Strangely, she seemed to back away from that assertion after Colbert called her out on it, but she did get in a good dig at Dick Cheney and his ascension into Heaven. Clip above. More »