My social anxiety makes it incredibly hard for me to have normal small talk, so blogging has been the next best thing. Q: When you started the Bloggess, could you have imagined the accolades and bestselling memoirs?Ī: If you’d told me it would lead to four New York Times bestsellers, I’d have thought you were even crazier than I am. “I think the comedy helps people who don’t necessarily have my same battles want to keep reading,” she told The Washington Post, “and also maybe have a better idea of what it’s like to deal with mental illness or chronic pain.” Life with these ailments may be brutal, but she insists it can also be funny, like the painful joint-swelling from rheumatoid arthritis that sends her stretched-out shoes flying off her feet in public places, including into a movie theatre toilet. In Broken, Lawson is honest about her physical and mental health, but her levity (often in CAPS) is her buoy and her brand. But the sitcom-esque bits are simply candy coating atop a hard pill to swallow – the dark depths of Lawson’s years-long battle with depression, anxiety disorder and autoimmune diseases. Lawson may sound twee and sentimental like Jess from New Girl, with a knack for awkwardly derailing social interactions like Liz from 30 Rock. During her 14-year career as an award-winning blogger (of the Bloggess) and author – her recently released Broken (in the best possible way) is her fourth book and fourth consecutive bestseller – she’s penned an inordinate number of stories about squirrels. On a frantic mission to fashion booties for her dog, Dorothy Barker, she earnestly asked a drugstore clerk for “toddler-sized” condoms. She has a cat named Hunter S Thomcat and has christened a backyard owl, whom she tried to befriend, Owly McBeal. THE WASHINGTON POST – Jenny Lawson’s left shoes are called Thelmas the rights are Louises.
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