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In Would Everybody Please Stop?, a assortment of first-person essays and humor pieces, Jenny Allen asks the tough questions: Why do people say "it is exactly what it is"? What's the point of fat-free half-and-half? Let's the women detectives on TV carry purses, and where are we likely to think they keep almost all their stuff? And haven't we read enough about memes? Reporting from the potholes midway through life's trip, Allen addresses these and other more serious issues, like the rude awakenings of being sole after 25 years, of mothering an adolescent, and of coping with a serious illness. She also talks about life's everyday trials, like the horrors of trying a crafts job, the anxieties of being a houseguest, and the ever-changing rules of recycling. Allen is a performer at heart - her one-woman show I Acquired Sick I QUICKLY Acquired Better premiered in '09 2009, and she regularly works in other plays - and she brings that same spirit to these 35 brief essays, which appear to be the work of a lady Dave Barry. Writing on places both real (just like a swag den for celebrities at Sundance and the car parking whole lot at L.L. Bean's flagship store) and imaginary (a Buddhist retreat went to by Martha Stewart, Elmer Fudd's psychotherapy appointment), Allen's wit and compassion provide a fresh slant on the vicissitudes of day-to-day and not so day-to-day life.
