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Interview

Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith - Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, 2007

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Writers on the Record

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  • ABOUT Anne Lamott

    Anne Lamott’s novels include Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart.  She has also written four bestselling books of nonfiction, among them Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions of Writing and Life, Traveling Mercies, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, and Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith.  A Guggenheim Fellow and Salon columnist, she is working on a new novel, entitled Imperfect Birds. Profile

  • ABOUT Victoria Lautman

    Victoria Lautman is the creator, host, and producer of the radio program Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, on the air since 2004. She was a featured interviewer, host, and contributor on Chicago Public Radio for twenty years. She has also appeared as a regular cultural correspondent for WTTW's Artbeat and on several other local television affiliates. Lautman is a contributing editor for Chicago Magazine and a blogger for the Huffington Post.

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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.       

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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Victoria Lautman, Anne Lamott, Grace, Eventually, thoughts on faith, radio, novel, essay, author, religious left, progressive Christians

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