Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anne Lamott and Neal Allen have co-authored "Good Writing," the companion volume to Lamott's "Bird By Bird." (Christie Hemm Klok / ...

I am all too familiar with the specific, morbid feeling that I'm going to be physically crushed to death by the emails in my inbox. I realize this is not possible. They don't exist in physical form.

Anne Lamott and Neal Allen have co-authored "Good Writing," the companion volume to Lamott's "Bird By Bird." (Christie Hemm Klok / For The Times) They’re so darn cute together, these two. Neal Allen, ...