Adair Lara | Author

Adair Lara
humor, personal

Latest News & Events

Reading from Naked, Drunk & Writing

Jun.03.2009

Adair Lara talks about Naked, Drunk & Writing ($22.00). This is a funny, anecdotal and highly useful guide to writing personal essays and memoirs by Adair Lara, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years, who has been teaching at universities and private workshops for almost two decades.

Featured Works

View all»

Previous Pause Next

PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2009

Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Writing Essays and Memoirs

Naked, Drunk and Writing is a funny, anecdotal guide to writing personal essays and memoirs by Adair Lara a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years, who has been teaching at universities and private workshops from Squaw Valley Community of Writers to Mills College for almost two decades. “Half the people I know seem to have take classes and workshops...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2008

The Granny Diaries

How to get along with that bristly person (your daughter) who stands between you and your grandkids The Granny Diaries -- This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?). She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr. Sears guide...

Add to Bag

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Jan.04.2008

Hold Me Close, Let Me Go

Praise for Hold Me Close, Let Me Go"The thrilling level of honesty and discovery burned into every line of Hold Me Close, Let Me Go is something that rarely informs a memoir of any kind. In this case, Adair Lara has transcended the genre of self to achieve selflessness. Her story of her struggle, the mistakes, the triumphs, the abiding love and pure anguish to save her...

Add to Bag

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Aug.30.2010

Naked Drunk And Writing

The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped. Enter Adair Lara: award-winning author, seasoned columnist, beloved writing coach, and the answer to all of your autobiographical quandaries. Naked...

Add to Bag

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Jul.15.2008

You Know You’re A Writer When

a collection of wry quotations on what it means to be a writer

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2003

Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer

We could all use some advice now and then. When the self-help books just aren't helping, it's time to call in the experts: real people. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in over 200 bits of priceless counsel. With witty...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Nov.01.1999

The Best of Adair Lara

The author, Adair Lara, has won thousands of readers in America and Europe during her ten years as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her articles are humorous, ironic, poignant, marvelously revealing commentaries on life in the 1990s, on love, marriage, and divorce, on raising teenagers, on being Irish and dealing with a large and unruly Irish family. Her work has been...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

About Adair

I started my career in local magazines-first San Francisco Focus, the city magazine, and then SF, a design mag at which I passed myself off as someone passionately interested in interior design. (This amused my family no end. They remembered my sitting on the...

Read full bio »

Adair Larahumor, personal

Latest News & Events

Reading from Naked, Drunk & Writing

Featured Works

About Adair

Connections

Adair Lara
humor, personal