Jenny Allen Writes http://www.jennyallenwrites.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Trailer for I Got Sick Then I Got Better http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2010/04/trailer-for-i-got-sick-then-i-got-better/ http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2010/04/trailer-for-i-got-sick-then-i-got-better/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:14:13 +0000 admin http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/?p=205

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

]]> http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2010/04/in-the-fullness-of-time/feed/ 0 I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2010/04/i-got-sick-then-i-got-better/ http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2010/04/i-got-sick-then-i-got-better/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:14:11 +0000 admin http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/?p=126 If you are interested in sharing I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER with your community, school, university, college, support group or hospital, please contact Peter Hagan, Jenny’s agent. Ben Brantley, writing for The New York Times, called the show “embraceable” and wrote: “Ms. Allen speaks with passion and precision…” Read the full review.

Upcoming Performances:
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
Washington, D.C.
July 11, 2010

Adelphi University
Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline
Concert Hall, One South Ave
Garden City, N.Y.
October 17, 2010

Recent performances:

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; The Canary Foundation, Menlo Park, California; Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, New Jersey; New York Theatre Workshop, New York, New York; Arts on the Lake, Kent, New York; Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut; Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Wellfleet, Massachusetts; Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York.

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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

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

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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.

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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…

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

]]> http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2009/07/jenny-allen-at-the-new-yorker-festival-oct-16%e2%80%9318/feed/ 0 I Can’t Get That Penis Out of My Mind http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2009/03/i-cant-get-that-penis-out-of-my-mind/ http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/2009/03/i-cant-get-that-penis-out-of-my-mind/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:05:26 +0000 admin http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/?p=21 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.

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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.

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