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The New Yorker’s Culture Desk: Coffee Cake, Anyone?
Coffee Cake, Anyone?
By Jenny Allen
New on Our Morning Menu!
Espresso Doughnuts
Cake doughnut infused with three shots of espresso. (380 calories)
Try with: Doughnut Espresso
Shot of espresso topped with fresh doughnut batter. (380 calories)
Cocoa “Puffs” Puff pastry with all-cacao custard filling. (610 calories)
Try with: Cream Puff Cocoa
Our classic all-cacao cocoa topped with peppermint whipped cream, topped with Cocoa Puffs. (430 calories)
Cappuccino Whoopie Pie-lets
Three espresso-soaked mini chocolate cakes with cappuccino crème filling. (1380 calories)
Try with: Cakey Cappuccino
Our classic cappuccino, topped with…Read more at The New Yorker’s Culture Desk
Jenny in The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs
Can I Borrow That?
The New Yorker‘s Shouts & Murmurs
August 29, 2011
You know how no one’s making kitten heels this year? It’s so weird—last year every shoe was a kitten heel, and now all the heels are like stilts again. I should’ve bought ten pairs. And now I can’t find the one pair I had. I think my cleaning lady took them. So can I borrow your alligator ones? Just put them by your front door in a plastic bag in case it rains. I’ll swing by as soon as I get a minute…read more.
Anthologies: Andy Borowitz’s 50 Funniest American Writers & In The Fullness of Time
The 50 Funniest American Writers, According to Andy Borowitz
In The Fullness of Time
Jenny Allen’s writings appear in Andy Borowitz’s new anthology, The 50 Funniest American Writers, as well as in In The Fullness of Time, an anthology about life after 50. Click on the book covers for more information.
Livestrong Quarterly
“I wasn’t mad that the cosmos had “given” me cancer…I was mad because I was terrified, and no one and nothing was making the terror go away.” Jenny was featured in Livestrong Quarterly. Click here to read the article.
Jenny at The Cornelia Street Cafe’s WRITERS READ
Jenny will read work at The Cornelia Street Cafe on December 16 at 6:00pm, as part of the WRITERS READ program. Mark your calendar and check back for details!
Jenny has recently appeared to read her work at True Story: The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series and The Moth’s Raised Eyebrows: Stories of Shock, Surprises and Scandals
How to Assign a Magazine Story
How to Assign a Magazine Story
A short piece published by the Atlantic’s Culture blog.
Brooke Shields in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING & “The Little Ways We Drive Each Other Nuts” in MORE
Read “Being Brooke,” Jenny’s bio of Brooke Shields in the January 2010 issue of Good Housekeeping
Read “The Little Ways We Drive Each Other Nuts” in the November 2009 issue of More magazine.
The Obamas can have my house!
Take My House, Please appeared today in the Huffington Post.
Dear President and Mrs. Obama,
So I’m sitting in traffic here on Martha’s Vineyard, trying to get downtown to buy those turquoise-colored poison pellets to kill the mice that drop their tiny doo-doos all over my kitchen counters, and it hits me, bonk!, like the apple on Mr. Isaac Newton: The Obamas can have my house! You can have my house!