Jennifer asked Anne Lamott:

First, thank you - your books on finding faith were the first that helped me believe it was ok to be feminist, pro-choice, pro-equality and still be a believer. I used to think conservatism was a pre-requisite to claiming that faith. So my question, as one liberal Christian to another, is what authors do you read on topics of faith?

Anne Lamott I read and love Mary Oliver, Denise Levertov, Frederick Buechner, Thomas Merton. Mary Karr's spiritual memoir "Lit". C.S. Lewis.

I enjoyed your book "Bird by Bird" and found the advice to write about just one bird at a time, very helpful. It was a new idea for me, and very good advice. In today's writing environment, do you have advice for unknown authors to capture the interest of an agent? Building a platform before publishing a book is difficult, yet everyone seems to want a platform before they will even talk to a writer wanna be.

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