Irreverent humor for intellectual misfits. How would you describe your books to someone unfamiliar with them? By e-mail, Lawson spoke about her writing, her stuffed raccoon and why it is (sort of) okay to call her crazy. Her new book, “Furiously Happy” (Flatiron, $26.99), brings together odd stories from her life along with some heart-rending confessions about her struggles with depression, anxiety and chronic pain. The daughter of a professional taxidermist whose family kept (live) chickens in a filing cabinet in the garage, Lawson is also the irreverent voice of the Bloggess, a popular blog where this wife and mom turns her troubles - of which there are many - into a cockeyed comedy of self-deprecation and slapstick. Jenny Lawson’s first book, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” - a darkly humorous memoir about her hardscrabble upbringing in rural Texas - drew comparisons to David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler and was an instant bestseller.
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