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Aging Wistfully
A review by literature faculty member Brooke Allen of Jenny Allen’s new essay collection, Would Everybody Please Stop?, appeared in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal.
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Brooke wrote positively about the piece, calling Ms. Allen's writing and style “observant [and] light of touch.” Brooke continued: “What makes Ms. Allen’s essays charming and companionable is her capacity for taking pleasure in the banal… [Her] sensibility, as all this indicates, is at odds with the Zeitgeist—enchantingly so. To read the entire collection is to feel that one has gained an eccentric, generous new friend.”