Jenny Allen Writes

In the Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50

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
A short piece published by the Atlantic’s Culture blog.

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.

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!

Continued at Huffington Post…more…

The New Yorker Festival

Jenny will be a featured writer at the New Yorker Festival.

Now I’m an official blogger at the Huffington Post, but I still can’t get that penis out of my mind!

Read my article here:
I Can’t Get That Penis Out of My Mind

Bookmark my author page.

I’m in an anthology from The New Yorker! called Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker. It’s about how I can’t sleep.

I have a piece in a writer’s anthology about FOOD. It’s called Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image. You can buy it by clicking on that link.

It’s edited by Harriet Brown, and published by Ballantine Books.

Here’s the first sentence: “I’m afraid there’s no way to say this without sounding pitiful, so I’m just going to say it.”