Anne Lamott Upgrades Our Lives

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Anne Lamott is a progressive political activist and writer, the bestselling author of such books as Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions, Plan B, and her latest, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope. We're such fans of Anne Lamott that we've decided to devote an entire episode of The Upgrade to her. We talk to Anne about almost everything, including but not limited to: how to deal with the news cycle; having compassion for our small upsets in the face of large tragedies; how help can be a form of control; comparing our insides to other people’s insides; and the horrors of visiting the DMV. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker,
0:15.9	where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief
0:20.5	of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice
0:22.0	Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we have a very special episode of The Upgrade. Our guest
0:27.7	is progressive political activist and writer Anne Lamont. Anne is the New York Times best-selling
0:32.7	author of such books as Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions, Plan B, and her latest,
0:39.7	Almost Everything, notes on hope.
0:41.8	You think that these people who have done well have gotten the right publisher or gotten
0:45.7	the big crowd or the whatever, that that has filled up the Swiss cheese inside their souls,
0:51.1	and it doesn't.
0:52.1	It actually makes the holes bigger.
0:54.0	We're such fans of Anne Lamat that we've decided to devote an entire episode of the
0:57.7	upgrade to her.
0:58.9	Melissa, I have never been more excited for a guest, and we've had some pretty amazing
1:02.8	guests here.
1:03.3	We've had some amazing guests.
1:04.5	What makes you so excited about Anne Lamont, I ask you as I have a gigantic grin on my face.
1:09.5	I just, I love her writing so much. Her book
1:12.9	Operating Instructions meant everything to me when my son was a newborn. He's a teenager now,
1:18.6	but that first year was so grim and so grueling. And operating instructions is this just
1:23.3	really raw, honest memoir of the first year of her son's life. And it just, it just meant so much to me.
1:30.4	I remember there's a quote I remember where she talks about right after giving birth,
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