for release: march 3, 2005

nice!

Rock on!

thanks for posting this. I'm excited already.

Thanks...
I pre-ordered it just now.

Ooh! Ooh ooh ooh! I need that book now (or yesterday, or March 3rd, or... um, yeah....)!

(yay)

I can hardlly wait. When I scrolled onto that a great big smile came across my face. Thank you!

Thank you, Zayne!!

glad to feel the excitement!

come on march!

new anne lamott -- new otr -- my birthday...

what more can make it a lovely month?

melting snow

Sunshine, butterflies, and the first crop of dandelions. Alas, Quebec will likely wait 'til April to unveil the earth's colors again.

for anyone not yet exposed to the genius of anne lamott, give these links a try -- check her out.

peace.
zayne

Review & Excerpt of Traveling Mercies
Anne Lamott Links from her Agency Site

still on my date with anne.

i really think i would marry her if i weren't so damned straight!


http://www.notmuch.com/Audio/RAfiles/int1_980829.ram


http://www.notmuch.com/Audio/RAfiles/int2_980829.ram


peace,
zayne

still feeding the obsession: Another Anne Interview

Man, this is cool! Glad to hear it.....I (heart) Anne Lamott. Started reading Traveling Mercies again last week - she is so real!

Looking forward to March for new Anne, OtR, and Z-s b-day. What a month!

ON E-BAY

You mean we get new Anne Lamott AND new Over the Rhine this year? Score for us!

you may be able to pick some anne lamott titles up rather cheaply on ebay by going HERE. these people have items up but have spelled the dear writer's name incorrectly.

peace,
zayne

i'm jealous and pouting...
===================================
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005
7:00 P.M.
JUST BOOKS

ANNE LAMOTT "PLAN B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH"

"Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith" (Riverhead Books, $23.95) is the latest from the beststlling author of Blue Shoe, Traveling Mercies, Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, and other books. Anne Lamott is a past recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also a former columnist for Salon magazine. Ms. Lamott continues to inspire as she speaks to those who are anxious and scared about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, and whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers. She offers hope and makes us laugh despite the grim realities. This event is open to the public at 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2005, and will be held at First Congregational Church., 108 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Conn.

STILL A JEALOUS INSOMNIAC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Mar 10, 2005
07:00 PM

Meet the Writers

Anne Lamott: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810

TRUDE!!!!!!!!!
++++++++++++++

Pen & Podium Series: Anne Lamott
University of Denver - Newman Center - Gates Concert Hall, Denver, CO
Mon, Mar 14, 2005 07:30 PM

Holy Cow....
Thaanks for the heads-up, sweets...I will check this out.
I would so love to meet/hear her.
T xoxox

these are the only live dates i can find so far. her agency has nothing listed.
_______________________________________________________________
Anne Lamott
MARCH 3---Thursday:
Reads from her book Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith,
Depot Bookstore, 87 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 7:30 (415/383-2665)
=====================================================
Anne Lamott
March 7
Buying a copy of her book gets you into her reading/signing March 7.
The book is $24.95, and the event will be held at the Swedish American Museum.
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: 773.769.9299
====================================================
Anne Lamott: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Mar 10, 2005 07:00 PM
Meet the Writers
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003212-253-0810

===================================================
ANNE LAMOTT "PLAN B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH"
MARCH 11, 2005 FRIDAY
7:00 P.M.
JUST BOOKS
"Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith" This event is open to the public at 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2005, and will be held at First Congregational Church., 108 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Conn.

=====================================================
Anne Lamott
Mon, Mar 14, 2005 07:30 PM
Pen & Podium Series:
University of Denver - Newman Center - Gates Concert Hall, Denver, CO

===========================================
Anne Lamott
March 16, 2005 Wednesday07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Seattle First Baptist Church
Event Seattle Spiritual Synthesis presents Topic Anne Lamott will present her new book, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith."
Presenting Location: Sanctuary
Seattle's First Hill Neighborhood at 1111 Harvard Avenue, (corner of Harvard Ave and Seneca St) Seattle, WA 98122
================================================
Anne Lamott Reading
[b]March 17 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Powell’s City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR =================================================
Anne Lamott • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
March 22 • 7 pm Tuesday
Presentation Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall
733 N. Eighth St. • 414-286-3031
===================================================
Anne Lamott
March 24, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
@ Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA ===================================================
Anne Lamott
March 28 2005 Monday
8:00 pm Herbst Theatre
San Francisco, CA
====================================================
Anne Lamott
March 30, 2005 7:30 PM Wednesday
Location: Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Title of Event: CHAMBER EVENT:

Holy cow!!

A new Anne Lamott book?!?! Sweeet!

Thanks for sharing, dearest Zayne!

If only there were a few events down in the Los Angeles/San Diego area. Arrrgghhhh...

Zayne, where did you find these dates?

Hi everyone...another Anne Lamott fan here...

I just Googled for more Anne Lamott speaking engagements and found these events. You'll have to search for more info if you're interested in any of them.

March 8th, 8pm at University of California Santa Barbara

March 15th, 7pm at Dutton's Brentwood, Beverly Hills

March 22nd, 7pm at Central Library, Milwaukee

(Still crossing my fingers, hoping for a Philly gig...)

Crystal

I can't get Plan B just yet (stupid stupid stupid money), but I DID just get a copy of Blue Shoe in the mail today! Belated birthday/Christmas presents are the best!!! As you can see below, lavish stacks of gifts have always brought great joy to my heart....

I just found out Anne Lammot is doing a reading at Powell's the 17th of this month.
To steal libby's avatar here, Le sigh. That happens to be the very last night of my membership class, and I HAVE to be there.

I'm on the mailing list of this wonderful bookstore. I received this and thought I'd share it with everyone.




Dear Leather Stalking Books Customer:

We are pleased to offer signed copies of Anne Lamott's new book, Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith.  This is a follow-up to her bestseller, Traveling Mercies.   Available for shipping in late March, signed on the title page and priced at $25.00

With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal; environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time.

Fortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort, and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.

Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, "Everybody loves Anne Lamott."

Obviously, this book is a departure from our usual offerings of detective fiction and suspense novels.  But we think you'll agree that Ms. Lamott addresses issues that touch all our lives, especially those of us (ourselves included) who have reached a certain age.

 

Bill & Vi Elsey
Leather Stalking Books
107 Bartlett Rd.
Cooperstown, NY 13326-3318
607-547-5748
www.leatherstalkingbooks.com

check this out:!!!

Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:30 PM
Anne Lamott!
Location: Emory University, Dobbs Univ. Center, Winship Ballroom
Description: Anne Lamott will be reading from and signing her new book, Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith!

She will be in Atlanta!!!! What the heck about that!

Okay.

Where do you guys find these dates? Does she have a site online where they are listed?

I found mine on the web-site of the bookstore I went to. At the art auction, I won a $25 gift cert to the bookstore, self-proclaimed to be a bookstore for feminist. I dont care. I paid less than $2 for the new book! Going to curl up and read for a while now.....

kiss kiss

there's a nice excerpt from Plan B up on salon.com today ... you have to sit through an ad for Be Cool to get the day pass but it's well worth it.

i did a huge web search after trying to get information from her agency. they were very uncooperative...poo-poo to them.





so much for having done the leg work and posting this info about a month ago.

QUOTE(zayne @ Feb 8 2005, 09:16 PM)

these are the only live dates i can find so far. her agency has nothing listed.
_______________________________________________________________
Anne Lamott
MARCH 3---Thursday:
Reads from her book Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith,
Depot Bookstore, 87 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 7:30 (415/383-2665)
=====================================================
Anne Lamott
March 7
Buying a copy of her book gets you into her reading/signing March 7.
The book is $24.95, and the event will be held at the Swedish American Museum.
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: 773.769.9299
====================================================
Anne Lamott: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Mar 10, 2005 07:00 PM
Meet the Writers
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003212-253-0810

===================================================
ANNE LAMOTT "PLAN B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH"
MARCH 11, 2005 FRIDAY
7:00 P.M.
JUST BOOKS
"Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith" This event is open to the public at 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2005, and will be held at First Congregational Church., 108 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Conn.

=====================================================
Anne Lamott
Mon, Mar 14, 2005 07:30 PM
Pen & Podium Series:
University of Denver - Newman Center - Gates Concert Hall, Denver, CO

===========================================
Anne Lamott
March 16, 2005 Wednesday07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Seattle First Baptist Church
Event Seattle Spiritual Synthesis presents Topic Anne Lamott will present her new book, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith."
Presenting Location: Sanctuary
Seattle's First Hill Neighborhood at 1111 Harvard Avenue, (corner of Harvard Ave and Seneca St) Seattle, WA 98122
================================================
Anne Lamott Reading
[b]March 17 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Powell’s City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR =================================================
Anne Lamott • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
March 22 • 7 pm Tuesday
Presentation Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall
733 N. Eighth St. • 414-286-3031
===================================================
Anne Lamott
March 24, 7:30 p.m. Thursday
@ Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA ===================================================
Anne Lamott
March 28 2005 Monday
8:00 pm Herbst Theatre
San Francisco, CA
====================================================
Anne Lamott
March 30, 2005 7:30 PM Wednesday
Location: Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Title of Event: CHAMBER EVENT:

Zayne- just wondering if you know anything about this Anne Lamott person!?

I just finished this book.
Fabulous.
I never expected anything less.
Anne and I are on the same page about so many things....
Her political views may be at the top of the list.
She's unafraid to let everyone know the passionate thoughts in her being.
I'm glad I have added this book to my collection.
xo

hey...does anybody know if she's going to be doing speaking engagements or book signings or anything like that?

thanks for finding all of that info, zayne - i'm going to see her tonight in chicago!!!


muchos thanks,
jana

I just got the new issue of People magazine.
In the book section, VR Peterson gives her 4 out of 4 stars in a nice review.
Two tums up.

hey trudes:

are you going to be able to attend the reading tonight?

also


jana,

how was the reading you attnded?

living through the apples,
zayne

You and me both. *sigh*

I've finished the book, too. And I don't know. It's full of really amazing sentences- the kind that you want to tack up on the fridge or repeat as a mantra. But it didn't hit me the same way that Traveling Mercies and Bird by Bird did.

Even the political stuff... I mean, I <i>completely</i> agree with her political orientation, and yet I couldn't help but wish for more constructive talk about politics.

I'm still glad I read it, and that I have it. It's just not going to topple her other works in my pantheon of nonfiction.

sharing a little lamott reading:

A day at the beach with my "aunties"

Spiritual experiences do not happen so frequently at Club Med for normal people who travel well; but there is no one fitting that description around here. Sam and I went with our best friends to Club Med a couple of months ago, and I got another little brown-bag victory: I broke through Butt-Mind; or at any rate, have only had the mildest case of Butt-Mind ever since. In earlier incarnations I've spent days and entire weeks comparing my butt to everyone else's butt. Sometimes my butt was better-than, although it is definitely the butt of a mother who keeps forgetting to work out. Mostly it was worse-than. Mostly at Club Med it was much worse-than. I did not expect things to be any different this time, because gravity is having its say, and the dimples are deepening and conquering new territories. Also it happened to be Easter week, which meant there would be lots of teenage girls, only a few of whom, statistically, could be expected to have droopy butts and major dimpling issues.

I started off in heavy Butt-Mind on the plane headed to Huatulco. There were all these teenage girls on board in tiny shorts that my 7-year-old son could have borrowed. Someone less secure about her own beauty might have said, "Too many teenage girls." But I was able to look down my nose at them because I was reading a magazine containing a big article on Junkie Chic, on society's current exhortation of drowsy, skaggy emaciation. Now granted, the girls on the plane were mostly youthful and bouncy and physically stunning, if you happen to find tan, lean youth attractive. But the article on Junkie Chic was making me feel militantly on my own sorry-ass side.

I was becoming a convert to What Cellulite Turns Into Down The Road Chic; Tired Feet of a Czechoslovakian Dockworker Chic. I was not even thinking of the priest I have mentioned before, who said that sometimes he thinks that heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Rather, a number of things have fallen into place somewhere along the line, and I have discovered that a person being herself is beautiful; that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful. And most importantly, I had discovered I was clinically and objectively beautiful.

I really mean it in the literal sense. I believe that if you saw me, you would say, "Wow. What a beautiful woman."

I think.

I'm almost sure.

But of course, I was thinking all this before I got to the beach.

Until recently, I was afraid to say it out loud, that I am beautiful, for fear that people would look at each other with amusement, think to themselves, Well, isn't that nice: I wonder if she thinks she has a weenie, too. I was afraid people would look with eyes of cruel scrutiny and see a thinnish woman in profoundly late youth with tired wrinkly eyes, flabby thighs and scriggly-scraggly hair, as my son once described it; and scriggly-scraggly teeth. I was afraid they would see the spidery veins on my legs, and that my bottom appears to be making a break for freedom from the confines of the rear end of my swimsuit; afraid that they would notice all the parts of me that really need to have the fat vacuumed out, or at least carpet-swept. But somehow I was not afraid to say it anymore. On that plane with all these beautiful young girls walking up the aisle as if it were a runway, if someone had exhibited so much as an angstrom of doubt about my beauty, I would have said that they could come kiss my big, beautiful, dimply, droopy butt.

However, as I said, this was before I got to the beach.

After unpacking in Huatulco, I put on my best black swimsuit. It was very expensive when I got it, very alluring, Calvin Klein's finest. The only real fly in the ointment is that it no longer fits. Actually, I'm not sure if it ever did. But there in my room overlooking the turquoise sea, infinite palm trees, a sky like God's own gaze, I remembered that there is beauty in having thrown off the burden of one's family. There is beauty in having gotten so comfortable at being skilled at something; there is grace in comfortableness. Also, the wife of the couple we were traveling with -- our best friends -- has dimply thighs and a big butt too.

Maybe even bigger. Not that I'm comparing or anything.

So I waddled on down to the beach.

I was not wearing a cover-up, not even a T-shirt. I had decided I was going to take my thighs and butt with me proudly wherever I went. I decided to treat them as if they were beloved elderly aunties, who did embarrassing things like roll their stockings into tubes around their ankles at the beach, but who I was proud of because they were so great in every important way. We walked along, the aunties and me, to meet Sam and our friends on the beach. I could feel the aunties beaming. They had been in the dark too long. It did not trouble me that parts of my body -- the auntie parts -- kept moving even after I had come to a full halt. Who cares? People just need to be soft and clean.

The first girls I saw were young, 9 or 10, splashing around on the rocks near the shore, pretending to be horses. One of them was catching crabs. Iguanas watched with unblinking eyes from boulders that lined the walkway, and the three girls were fearless, seemingly unself-conscious, so lovely. At 9 or 10, girls still get to be fine. They've still got a couple of years before they totally forget what they do have, and start obsessing about what they don't. These girls had legs like baby egrets, probably not so changed yet from when they were 7 and 8. They were still of an age when they could play without wearing the glasses of puberty that allow them to see all their flaws. Not yet measuring, not yet comparing, still able to get caught up in crabs, in iguanas and currents, lost in what is right in front of them.

I was so inspired. I found Sam and our friends on the beach, and we swam all afternoon, and everything was wonderful. Then I decided to head back up to my room for a little nap before dinner, and ended up waiting for one of the vans that give people rides up the steep hillside. First I was alone; and it was good. I smiled, thinking of the aunties. I imagined one as Margaret Rutherford in old age, one as Samantha's dreamy aunt in "Bewitched," who could never get her spells to work. And then out of nowhere -- no, no, like dogs from hell -- four teenage girls showed up.

They were literally lovely as models, all in bikinis, two of them already tan. And suddenly my trance was broken, and it was the Emperor's New Clothing, and I felt flabby and cellulitic and unearthly -- like someone under fluorescent lights. I felt in comparison to these girls like Roy Cohn in his last days. I wanted a trapdoor to open at my feet. And this is the truth -- they looked at me. They looked at me standing there in the bright sunlight wearing only an ill-fitting swimsuit that has been laundered more times than the funds in Oliver North's campaign chest.

Then they looked at each other, with these looky looks, and it was their fatal mistake. It gave me time to have two mean thoughts. One was not even a thought exactly: I just imagined whispering, softly, "Tick, tock ... tick, tock."

The other was the realization that I knew their secret: that they didn't think they were OK. They were at the stage where it's so hard not to get caught up in your own self-loathing. They didn't even secretly believe they were beautiful. The one probably thought she was too short, the other too tall. The most beautiful one had no breasts, the buxom one had thin hair. It softened my heart a little, that none of them secretly thought they were OK. Here's one thing I know: Ugliness is creeping around in fear, and here I was, almost naked, and -- to use the medical term -- flabbier than shit, but deeply loyal to myself.

I made myself not check out their butts.

A van came along and took us up the hill. They got off before me, and I forced myself to look up, forced myself to look at the sky.

When I got to my room and had taken a long, hot shower, I studied myself in the mirror, standing there in my terrible underwear. My son barged in just as I began to put on a little make-up. He was hungry and wanted to go. But I shook my head, and began to dab on tinted moisturizer.

"Why do you have to do that?" he whined. "I'm starving to death."

"It will just take a minute," I said. He wouldn't understand: He looks like a 7-year-old cross between God and Cindy Crawford. And I don't understand entirely, either.

But I wasn't thinking that I looked awful and wanted to look like someone else; that is the point at which you can come dangerously close to female impersonation. I just remembered that sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. It's burnishing, honoring the healthy, rosy, young person inside who is temporarily asleep in another room. It says, "Sometimes I look a little pale and wan, and I want to shine a little light on myself." It's almost like make-up can be a form of light, like on days when a little cloud cover makes you really notice the rays that come slanting through. Maybe the key is simply a wry fondness for the thing you're slapping this stuff onto, instead of a desire to disguise; when it's not a coat of paint you're wearing, but a mantilla.

But at any rate, I put on a little make-up that night, and then my starving son, the aunties and I -- the four of us looking unusually fine -- went to meet our friends for dinner.

June 5, 1997

Anne Lamott

Well, I purchased my copy and I am about a third of the way through. It is the perfect book to enjoy over Spring Break. I enjoyed reading about Sam meeting his father. The chapter about her dog dying had me crying and smiling at the same time.

I finished today! I do love her a great deal. I love what she says about being comfortable with who she is and what it is like for her to be in her forties versus her twenties and thirties.

got anne?

review

I got this book at the libarary, it's kicking my ass. I'd be interested in anyone elses experience w/ it.