She's famed on the Internet as the Bloggess ("like Mother Teresa, only better") and also writes an (I hope) tongue-in-check parenting column and a self-styled satirical sex column that must be sizzly because my office computer denies me access. Here, Lawson revisits her rural Texas childhood. With lots of media attention expected and comparisons to Chelsea Handler, this book is one to watch.
The Bloggess recommends three books to remind readers of the darker side of life.
If you love to laugh then you’re in luck, because we’ve gathered 50 of the funniest books of all time on this can’t-miss list. From the dark and dry to the witty and wry, from the fictive to the factual, from travel logs to comedic blogs, this extensive collection of humor both classic and new […]
Jenny Lawson’s new book, You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds, hits shelves March 7, and it couldn’t have arrived at a better time for me. Like 40 million other American adults, I have an anxiety disorder—it’s not who I am; it’s just something I have, like brown hair or farsightedness or the […]
We all have that one friend who manages to find anything and everything online. She sends us the best links, tweets hilarious articles, and knows exactly which urls lead to endless entertainment. She’s the one who responds to everything you say with, “There’s a Tumblr for that.” For those web-savvy friends who keep us laughing at all […]
Jenny Lawson is crazy, and she knows it. She has a taxidermied pegasus. She brought a koala costume all the way to Australia in hopes of wearing it while holding a real koala who may or may not have chlamydia. And she’s afraid of finding dead bodies in public bathroom stalls.