Jenny Lawson
Jennifer Lawson is an American journalist and blogger. She is the author of The Bloggess and Ill Advised blogs, co-author of Good Mom/Bad Mom on the ... More »
Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," knows that the most humiliating moments in your life are often the ones that define you -- plus, they're the ones that readers find most funny. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), new in paperback, collects some of her most ... Read more »
Author of “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” finds humor in most everything.
Jenny Lawson will speak in Kansas City on Thursday. Where: Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St. Inappropriate, sure. But she’s the one who titles her book, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” and offers childhood tales like the one about getting her arm way, way stuck during a ... Read more »
Jenny Lawson: From Blogger To Bestseller
NEW YORK (WLNY) – Adorably offensive and irreverent, Jenny Lawson’s blog, TheBlogess.com, is among the most popular on the web. Now, she’s put all of her quirky humor into a memoir, ‘Let’s Pretend This Never Happened.’ She joined us on The Couch on Wednesday to share the laughs and talk ... Read more »
Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson, aka "The Bloggess," knows that the most humiliating moments in your life are often the ones that define you -- plus, they're the ones that readers find most funny. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), collects some of her most harebrained and ... Read more »
I Talked to The Bloggess: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Without a Confidence Wig
Jenny Lawson If I have money, it’s a snow cone topped with Chambord. If I don’t, it’s a Smirnoff poured over crushed ice with a hint of cherry cough syrup. BlogHer: Do you think cats really leave dead animals at your feet because they think you’re too dumb to learn to hunt? Jenny ... Read more »
MTV Act Blog – Act-Approved Summer Reading List: ‘The Help,’ Romney, Obama, ‘...
Jenny Lawson, $20 at betterworldbooks.com It’s pretty hard to pretend something never happened when you publish it for the world to see, but this hilarious “mostly true” memoir by Jenny Lawson teaches us that our most embarrassing moments will someday become the ones we recall ... Read more »
Permission To Be You
, Jenny Lawson got some help on that path thanks to her father, a turkey named Jenkins, and an incident in the public school library. "Because it was the first time in my life that I gave myself permission to be me. I was still shy and still self-conscious and terrified of people, but ... Read more »
Nielsen, Lawson top best-seller list at Seattle’s Secret Garden Bookshop
Book 1 of the Ascendence Trilogy, “The False Prince” by Jennifer Nielsen, leads the children’s best-seller list while Jenny Lawson’s “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” tops adult best-sellers at Seattle’s Secret Garden Bookshop. Current best-sellers at Secret Garden Bookshop, 2214 N.W. ... Read more »
Jenny Mollen Lands Book Deal with St. Martin’s Press
Here’s more from the release: “Written in the spirit of Chelsea Handler, Jen Lancaster, and Jenny Lawson, I Like You Just the Way I Am is about not doing the right thing. With stories of Jenny stalking her therapist and punching her best friend in the eye (as a favor), I Like You ... Read more »
Metal chickens and red dresses
Humorist Jenny Lawson’s online site, The Bloggess, gets millions of hits every month. She has more than 200,000 followers on Twitter. Her book, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened,” debuted four months ago on The New York Times best-seller list. She credits her success to growing up in a ... Read more »
Hot memoirs
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson (The Blogess), Amy Cinhorn Books, Putnam The title of Lawson’s entertaining book is derived from the fact that it is our most embarrassing and horrible moments — the ones we would like to erase from our hard drive — that mould us and ... Read more »
Best Sellers
LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) THE ART AND MAKING OF THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY, by Jody Duncan Jesser (Abrams) WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST?, by Jim Holt (Liveright) IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN IT LOOKS, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (Basic Books) A ... Read more »
Best Sellers
LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson. (Penguin Group. ) A blogger recalls her unusual upbringing. THE COMMUNIST, by Paul Kengor. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink. ) A professor at Grove City College argues that Frank Marshall Davis, an elderly black Communist whom Barack ... Read more »
2012 In Review: 50 Wonderful Things From The Year In Pop Culture : Monkey See : NPR
All the parts of Let's Pretend This Never Happened, the memoir of Jenny Lawson (known online as The Bloggess), that made me laugh so hard I kept having to put down the book. 45. A comment that A.V. Club writer Todd Van Der Werff left on his own recap of an episode of Lena Dunham's Girls... Read more »
The Printed Blog Kickstarter Campaign – Like The Internet, Only Flammable
With highly regarded bloggers such as Jenny Lawson, a.k.a. The Bloggess, White Girl Problems author Babe Walker, and former Men’s Fitness editor and media personality Neal Boulton all serving as contributing writers, and controversial celebrity photographer Tyler Shields - currently ... Read more »
Katie Couric stakes a claim in daytime talk TV
And on Thursday, her guests are Brene Brown, author of the upcoming motivational book "Daring Greatly" and popular blogger Jenny Lawson. "I just hope people will be receptive to the whole spectrum of different kinds of shows that I really want to do," says Couric. "I hope that we won't ... Read more »
Pizarro: The Bloggess visits the Bay Area on book tour
San Jose : CA : USA | Apr 01, 2013 at 2:54 PM PDT Font Resize If the Bay Area seems a little more quirky and interesting this week, it's probably because Jenny Lawson is around. The irreverent writer, known to the Internet world as The Bloggess, started out writing a parenting blog in ... Read more »
Cohen's 'Hallelujah' inspires new book
With 13,066 votes, Hill Country-based Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) won in the humor category for "Let's Pretend This Never Happened," her "mostly true memoir" featuring taxidermy, phobias and four-letter words. Houston's Justin Cronin snagged 7,414 votes and top horror spot for "The ... Read more »
10 Books Not to Miss in 2013
She's aiming for a funny run of stories and essays along the lines of Jenny Lawson's Let Pretend this Never Happened. (March 19) Rohm, best known for her role on Law and Order, blogged about her infertility for People.com, and she was overwhelmed by the positive responses from women who ... Read more »
Karen Ballum: Chatter
I have Jenny Lawson's (Bloggess) book to pick up from the library today. Ack! There is a good chance I'll finish 2 of the 3 books before the end of the year...but I won't be making my goal. Damn. Although, last year I only read 20 books, this year I've read 31...so, I'm pleased with my ... Read more »
