My first drafts are awful and they’re too long and they’re overwrought and I try to be funny so you won’t think I’m secretly a depressive.
Click play to listen. Recorded on March 25, 2007.
Radio host and journalist Victoria Lautman interviews author Anne Lamott following the publication of her collection of essays entitled Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (2007). Lamott discusses such influences on her work as her relationship to her parents, her son’s departure for college, her conversion to Christianity after being raised as an atheist, and her turn toward sobriety.
Above: Detail from The Lamp by Mary Cassatt, 1891.
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