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Friday, May 15, 2009

Anne Lamott Interview on Colbert Report

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All Together Singing in the Kitchen: Creative Ways to Make and Listen to Music as a Family
Plastic Angel
How to Be an Adult
Let the Great World Spin
Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers
Middlesex
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Crossing to Safety
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
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This blog started in 2004 as a way for Nerissa and Katryna Nields to continue to blather to their fans while Katryna was on maternity leave after giving birth to her son. Mostly Nerissa posts because she has a great need to blather, but occasionally Katryna gets a word (or a cartoon) in. These days, we are preparing for the release of our 16th album, The Full Catastrophe. We are also mothers, and love to explore how our children and our roles as moms impacts our writing and music. We have written a book which came out in September 2011 called All Together Singing in the Kitchen: Creative Ways to Make and Listen to Music with Your Family.

Nerissa is the author of two other books; Plastic Angel (Scholastic, 2005), a story of two teen age girls who find purpose and meaning through friendship and music; and How to Be an Adult, a guide for 20 somethings who have need of a road map.

For the purposes of protecting the anonymity of her children, Nerissa's daughter is called "Elle" and her son is called "Jay" in these writings. Her husband Tom is referred to as "Tom," only without the quotation marks.

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