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JENNY ALLEN is a writer and performer. Her profiles, essays and reviews have appeared for years in many magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, among other periodicals.  Recent essays appear in Disquiet, Please! a new anthology of humor pieces from the New Yorker, and in In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50, to be published this April by Simon & Schuster. She is the author of a book of fables for grown-ups called The Long Chalkboard, illustrated by her husband, Jules Feiffer. She has performed in productions of Jules’ Blues and in readings of “Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell.” She produces and performs stand-up comedy evenings in Manhattan. “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” was first performed on Martha’s Vineyard in the summer of 2007; since then James Lapine has been collaborating with Allen and with Darren Katz on shaping and expanding the material, under the aegis of New York Theatre Workshop, which produced the show in 2009. Ms. Allen is now performing it in theaters around the country.

PATRICIA MARX is a writer and humorist. She contributes regularly to the New Yorker, as well as to the New York Times, Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. She has also written for film and television, including for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats”. Her novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, was a runner-up for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her latest children’s book, Dot in Larryland, was published in 2009 by Bloomsbury, with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Among her other books are How To Regain Your Virginity, Blockbuster, and several children’s books, including Now Everybody Really Hates Me, and Meet My Staff. She also teaches sketch comedy at New York University.