It’s Ok if You Are Writing a Shantytown
The shining city on a hill is boring
5 min readJul 20, 2021
The title of this piece is shamelessly borrowed from today’s podcast transcript of a Tim Ferriss interview with Anne Lamott, the writer’s writer (if you write, and you have not read Bird by Bird, stop reading and get that book). In it she describes all her books as shantytowns.
