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Jenny Allen

Biography

Jenny Allen

Jenny Allen is a performer, and the author of WOULD EVERYBODY PLEASE STOP?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, among other publications. Her award-winning solo show, "I Got Sick Then I Got Better," has been seen in venues across the country and in Canada. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Jenny Allen

Books by Jenny Allen

by Jenny Allen - Essays, Humor, Nonfiction

In Jenny Allen's debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. One moment she’s flirting shamelessly --- and unsuccessfully --- with a younger man at a wedding; the next she’s stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter’s computer. She ponders the connection between her ex-husband’s questions about the location of their silverware, and the divorce that came a year later. While undergoing chemotherapy, she experiments with being a “wig person.” And she considers those perplexing questions that we never pause to ask: Why do people say “It is what it is”? What’s the point of fat-free half-and-half ? And haven’t we heard enough about memes?