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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott ISBN 0679420916
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Anne Lamott ISBN 0679420916
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This book by Anne Lamott has come up 3 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-07-19 and the most recent from 2024-07-19. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"I woke up with a start at 4:00 one morning and realized that I was very, very pregnant." So begins novelist Aniie Lamott's journal of the birth of her son, Sam, and their first year together. She must face complicated circumstances of heroic proportions. A single mother who must support herself and her son entirely by her wit and craft, she is also a recovering alcoholic, clean and sober for more than three years. Newly and militantly on her own side, she remains dangerously close to memories of days when she "couldn't take decent care of cats." Fortunately, Lamott is one of the world's funniest people.
“New York Times bestselling author of 20 books including operating instructions an account of her son's first year”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Anne Lamott and Josh Waitzkin: Anne Lamott is a New York Times bestselling author of 20 books including Bird by Bird and Operating Instructions; Josh Waitzkin is an eight-time National chess champion, two-time Tai Chi Push Hands world champion, Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, and author of The Art of Learning. A 10-year anniversary combo episode pairing Anne Lamott on radical self-care with Josh Waitzkin on flow, learning, and presence.
“her beloved and best-selling books like operating instructions an account of her son's first year”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Anne Lamott: Best-selling author of 19 books including the writing classic 'Bird by Bird' and faith essay collections like 'Traveling Mercies.' A Sunday school teacher, recovering alcoholic, and Guggenheim fellow known for blending candor, humor, and spirituality. Anne Lamott on taming the inner critic, radical self-care, writing badly on purpose, recovery, prayer, and turning pain into medicine.
“in her beloved and best-selling books like operating instructions an account of her son's first year bird by bird her classic book on writing”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Anne Lamott: Best-selling author of 19 books including the classic writing guide Bird by Bird and the memoir Operating Instructions. A Sunday school teacher, left-wing activist, and recovering alcoholic sober since 1986 who writes with candor and humor about faith, addiction, motherhood, and grace. Anne Lamott on writing badly to write at all, recovery, dark nights of the soul, and turning pain into medicine.
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