Addiction, motherhood, and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Writer Anne Lamott has garnered a cult following with her shockingly honest prose on love, death, faith, writing and more. This hour, her wisdom from a career that has spanned 20 books and 40 years.

Original broadcast date: April 5, 2024.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
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0:22.3	Challenge you.
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0:47.8	In Northern California, in the 50s and early 60s, all fourth graders had to write their first research paper.
0:50.2	And you have a whole semester to do it.
0:56.3	One semester was about Sacramento, our capital, and one semester was about birds.
1:03.9	This is best-selling author, Anne Lamott. So my older brother, who did not like school and was very bitter about any homework he was asked to do, had not started it. He'd had the whole semester,
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