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Author:

Allen, Jenny, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Sarah Crichton Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 224 pages ; 22 cm

Other Titles:

Essays. Selections

Contents:

Please don't invite me. 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 -- 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.

Summary:

"A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374118329
9780374118327

OCLC:

(OCoLC)947146956

LCCN:

2016052305

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

BEPA251 -- Linden Public Library (Linden)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

CIPB482 -- Victor Public Library (Victor)