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The Rise (and Occasional Dips Into Despair!) of Jenny Lawson In her best-selling memoirs, her eclectic, taxidermy-filled San Antonio bookstore, and her unvarnished tweets, the author makes light of her darkest times and helps her readers make light of theirs. Anyone who has read Jenny Lawson’s work knows that the 47-year-old writer suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. Once, it made her finger swell up like a Ball Park hot dog. Another time, her ankle got so big that it looked as if she were wearing a “single nude leg-warmer stuffed with apples.” Often, flare-ups leave her bedridden or send her rushing to the emergency room; she has joked that she wishes the condition had a sexier name, like “the Midnight Death” or “Impending Vampirism.” It is a painful, incurable autoimmune disorder that affects everything from her shoe size (it fluctuates) to the way she experiences rain (her symptoms worsen). It is also the reason an in-person interview during the eleventh mo ....
What to Read Next New York Times bestselling author and Nowhere Bookshop owner Jenny Lawson releases her third book this month, Broken (In the Best Way Possible). Touted as “her most personal book yet,” this release includes a discussion of Lawson’s experimental treatment for depression using transcranial magnetic stimulation. As with her previous titles, Lawson takes everything from calls with her insurance company to business ideas she would pitch on Shark Tank and turns them into hilarious essays. Lawson and Nowhere Bookshop host an online book club, Fantastic Strangelings, which sends subscribed readers a new book each month. In April, they’re digging into ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading 2020 a year in arts that almost wasn t in San Antonio: Theaters, dancehalls and museums shut down for months this year before reopening to a new world FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Visual artist Debra Zender contributed some chalk art to musician and theater artist Jules Vaquera s project to spread messages supporting Black Lives Matter throughout King William. iJules VaqueraShow MoreShow Less 2of4 Artpace opened its spring artists-in-residence exhibitions, including an installation by Carlos Castro Arias online in April; visitors were allowed back into the galleries in June.Tom Reel /Staff file photoShow MoreShow Less 3of4 Concertgoers are socially distanced during a Herman s Hermits starring Peter Noone show at the Tobin Center as live music slowly returns to San Antonio venues.Robin Jerstad / Contributor file photoShow MoreShow Less ....