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Would everybody please stop? : reflections on life and other bad ideas / Jenny Allen.

by Allen, Jenny.

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Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Families -- Humor.

Families -- Anecdotes.

Women journalists -- United States -- Essays.

Women entertainers -- United States -- Biography.

American essays -- Women authors.

American essays -- 21st century.

x, 224 p. ; 22 cm.

I'm awake -- Seconds -- Ask the answer lady -- Canonize me -- Me, flirting -- How to tie-dye -- Dream on, you motherfucking mother -- Would everybody please stop? -- An affair to remember -- When I meditate -- My gathas -- Swagland -- Nothing left to lose -- Tawk therapy -- I can't get that penis out of my mind -- It's about time -- Take my horse, please -- Faking it -- Can I borrow that? -- My gratitudes -- My new feminist cop show -- Scary stories for grown-ups -- L.L. Bean and me -- Hair today, gone tomorrow -- I have to go now -- The trouble with nature -- Speak, memory -- Can I have your errands? -- How to take Dad to the doctor -- What I saw at the movies -- What I've learned -- Salt and pepper -- Roger Ailes's new, enlightened code of sexual conduct -- Falling -- Please don't invite me.

In her debut essay collection, humorist and performer Jenny Allen declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life's journey. 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? Jenny Allen's musings range fluidly from the personal to the philosophical. She writes with the familiarity of someone telling a dinner party anecdote, forgoing decorum for candor and comedy. Jenny Allen's 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.

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