Anne Lamott Operating Instructions

From its publication in 1993, Anne Lamott’s book “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year” became an essential companion for many new parents. Lamott’s readers then followed her from ...

The Denver Post: Book review: Author Anne Lamott creates operating instructions for son’s son in new book, “Some Assembly Required”

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: JOURNAL Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott (Riverside Books) Two decades ago, Anne Lamott wrote “Operating Instructions,” ...

Book review: Author Anne Lamott creates operating instructions for son’s son in new book, “Some Assembly Required”

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Back in 1993, author Anne Lamott, then a 35-year-old single mom, wrote a funny and unflinching memoir of her son Sam's first year. Called "Operating Instructions," the book became a bestseller and set ...

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TwinCities.com: Anne Lamott, who wrote the ‘Operating Instructions’ on motherhood, tackles the sequel

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Anne Lamott, who wrote the ‘Operating Instructions’ on motherhood, tackles the sequel

Anne Lamott is known for her quirky, opinionated and decidedly left-wing take on life. The author of nine previous books, including Hard Laughter and Operating Instructions, Lamott has earned a ...

Memoirist and novelist Lamott (Operating Instructions; Crooked Little Heart, etc.) brilliantly captures the dilemma of a divorced woman from the so-called "sandwich generation" in her latest, a funny, ...

The Washington Post: What Anne Lamott learned about love from becoming a grandparent

Without Anne Lamott, the entire sub-category of contemporary parent writing — which includes Brett Paesel, Christie Mellor, Ayun Halliday as well as all those mommy bloggers — probably wouldn’t exist.