Why Didn t You Just Do What You Were Told

Release on 2021-04-20 | by Jenny Diski

Her columns in the London Review of Books--selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude--have been described as "virtuoso performances," and ...

Why Didn t You Just Do What You Were Told

Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526621908
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 448
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A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New Yorker Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books--selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude--have been described as "virtuoso performances," and "small masterpieces." From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated--and mordantly funny.

Language: en
Pages: 448

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Authors: Jenny Diski

Categories: Literary Collections

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Language: en
Pages: 448

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Authors: Jenny Diski

Categories: Literary Collections

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke 'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New Yorker Jenny Diski was a

Language: en
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Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-23 - Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing

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