Anne Lamott Didn’t Set Out To Be A ‘Guru Of Optimism’

But writers don’t get to choose what their words mean after they send them out into the world. “Kindly and self-skewering, Lamott, now 64, has been doggedly chronicling the messy stuff of life — refracting her own complicated stories of addiction and loss — in mordantly comic and sharply observed memoirs and novels for over three decades.”