The New York Times once called her the “lefty guru of optimism,” but Anne Lamott was anything but after the newspaper published a negative review of her new book on Sunday. The author ...

Anne Lamott, Author, Anne Lamott ... mothers raising children, lost love, ill parents and more. Mattie, recently separated from her husband, has moved back to the home she grew up in.

The title of Anne Lamott’s 20th book is also an apt descriptor of the author’s extraordinary four-decade career. “Somehow,” after publishing four quiet, quirky Northern California novels ...