There just aren’t words for how much I love Anne Lamott.
The other day I heard Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada interviewing Heather Mallick about her new book Cake or Death (which you’ll probably see me reviewing here, eventually). They got talking about writers they like, and one of them mentioned Anne Lamott.
“Oh I love Anne Lamott!” swooned Heather.
“Love her!” agreed Shelagh.
“And you know what? She’s — a Christian!!” Heather confided, in tones of shock and awe.
“I know! A Christian!!” Shelagh concurred.
Here they were, these two cool, smart, funny, left-wing, middle-aged women, gobsmacked at the thought that cool, smart, funny, left-wing, middle-aged Anne Lamott is (gasp) a Christian.