Jenny Lawson -- the mouthy, witty, funny woman known as the Bloggess -- has moved from blog to book, and that's good news for her millions of fans.
In her blog (www.thebloggess.com, of course), she writes about motherhood, anxiety, popular culture, her cats and anything else that comes to mind -- all with great humor and a liberal use of the F-word.
Her memoir, "Let's Pretend This Never Happened," was published in April and debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times' bestseller list. ("I assure you, no one is more surprised about this than me," she wrote.) It, too, is funny and profane, all about taxidermy and bread-sack shoes and, yes, a bathtub full of raccoons.
She'll be in town Friday to read and sign books at Barnes & Noble in Edina. Here, she talks with us about creepy dolls, her love for Neil Gaiman (Neil might not know about this), and the wonderful drunken residents of Texas.
Q The subtitle of your book is "A mostly true memoir." What does that mean?
A All memoirs are mostly true, but I wanted to give my family an out in case they got harangued for anything in the book. I let all my family read it first, though, just to make sure they agreed with everything in it. I was surprised to find that they added even more that I'd almost forgotten!
Q Describe your writing room.
A Bizarre and eclectic. It's like a little room of strange designed to make me feel comfortable. It's filled with books, dead animals wearing clothes, creepy dolls and rusty things I find in thrift shops. There's a giant George Washington head in the corner staring at me as I write this.
