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

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780374118327 (hardback)
ISBN: 0374118329 (hardback)
ISBN: 0374537771
ISBN: 9780374537777 (paperback)
Physical Description: x, 224 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition paperback.
Publisher: New York, Sarah Crichton Books, 2018.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- Nothing left to lose -- Tawk thewapy -- 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.