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Anne Lamott's top 10 neighbors span journalists, politicians, academics, a comedian, and an outdoors brand — with no single standout pulling away from the pack. The scores compress into a narrow band from 0.95 (Heather Cox Richardson) down to 0.95 (Steve Inskeep), and the shape is flat throughout.
Tallying the subcategories across the top 10: journalists lead with three entries — Mary Louise Kelly (0.96), Connie Schultz (0.95), and Steve Inskeep (0.95) — followed by four politicians: Evan McMullin (0.96), Justin Amash (0.95), Amy Klobuchar (0.95), and Pete Buttigieg (0.95). Heather Cox Richardson (0.96) is the lone academic; Blaire Erskine (0.95) is the lone comedian; and Patagonia (0.95) is the lone brand — and the only non-person in the set. Michael Beschloss (0.94), the one fellow Author in the top 10, sits just outside the top 10 shown here; within the top 10, no other Author appears. The mix is civic and media-oriented: public-affairs journalists, center-to-left politicians, and NPR-adjacent voices dominate, with Patagonia as the structural outlier.
The flat shape means this audience is not anchored to any single adjacent figure — it is broadly distributed across a politically engaged, public-radio-inflected cluster.
