Anne Lamott’s new novel at first invokes the sort of twinge one feels when catching that Bob Dylan song on a Victoria’s Secret commercial. Yes, it’s still good art. No, you can’t blame an artist for ...

From the very first line of the very first page, Anne Lamott defines what’s at stake in her new novel, “Imperfect Birds”: “There are so many evils that pull on our children. Even in the mellow town of ...

Writer Anne Lamott is in a hotel room in Atlanta, staring at a large carrot cake. It's a present from her publisher, to celebrate her 56th birthday. "It's kinda weird to send a whole cake to one ...

Set in the Marin headlands near San Francisco, traces the dizzying efforts of a married couple intent on helping their teenage daughter survive the transition to adulthood. As always in Anne Lamott's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When Anne Lamott started penning Rosie in 1980, she had no idea that the family contained therein — Elizabeth, James and Rosie — would be reappearing for Crooked Little Heart and again in Imperfect ...

It is no doubt surprising to Anne Lamott fans — it is no doubt surprising to Lamott herself — that the salty, emotionally honest writer who burst into the memoir world as the 35-year-old single mother ...

Flawed characters make this book stand out. Anne Lamott's seventh novel features alcoholism, drug addiction, and family dysfunction. This will not surprise Lamott's fans. Her characters—including ...

Imperfect Birds has the opposite problem. At first, it seems Anne Lamott, always a lovely writer, has nailed adolescent bluster and swagger. But once Rosie — smart, wild — starts to grapple with ...

We might as well begin with Ingmar Bergman’s film “The Seventh Seal,” which plays at a local theater in Anne Lamott’s new novel, “Imperfect Birds,” and is debated by some of her characters. A chess ...