Jul 28, 2026 · 1:07:45

Anne Lamott on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with AL Anne Lamott

The Hang, in Short

Amy brings in Tina Fey to help prep for Anne Lamott, and within seconds Tina drops the most unhinged flex of the season, casually revealing she once came on the pod in disguise as Gwyneth Paltrow and nobody clocked it. "I just do a really good Gwyneth Paltrow impression," she says, like that explains everything. It doesn't, but it's glorious. From there the two spiral into full best friend brainstorming mode, debating whether to ask Lamott why God only takes the good people, floating would you rathers about eating pasta on a moving bus, and inventing a road trip game where they guess what color, breakfast food, and holiday Lamott would be. Tina says burnt orange and avocado toast. Amy says porridge with a sneaky amount of brown sugar. Bird by Bird gets called required reading. It's messy prep, but it's the good kind.

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Hello everyone and welcome to another
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episode of Good Hang. Very excited to
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have our guest on today. It is the great
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writer Anne Lamott. And I know we've had
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writers on before and authors, but this
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is an author author. This is a writer
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writer. You know what I mean? Anne
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Lamott is
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best-selling author who has written such
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books as Bird by Bird and Traveling
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Mercies and Operating Instructions. And
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we're going to talk to Anne about so
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many good things today. We're going to
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talk about Jesus and we're also going to
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talk about Mary. We're going to talk
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about um
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being a you know a a sweet and tender
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kid in San Francisco trying to figure
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out life. We're going to talk about
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finding love with people who are
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allergic to cats and you love cats and
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what do you do about it? And we're going
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to talk about her new book that she
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wrote with that love, her husband Neil
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Allen. And it is called good writing and

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