The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness …I got a jok
Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to
An alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. What was Jenny Diski doing in the six
What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their GodFirst came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absol
What does novelist, essayist, and memoirist Jenny Diski know about animals? She wasn't really sure as she began to write this book, and she may not be sure now. But of this she is certain: our relatio
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a j
WITH A PREFACE BY HEIDI JULAVITS, AUTHOR OF THE FOLDED CLOCKThe only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski—darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most origin
'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New Yorker'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly inte
The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski’s essays, “an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline” (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.“Diski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be.” ―The New YorkerJenny 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 an interrogation of universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated―and mordantly funny. With an afterword by her daughter, Chloe Diski, this is a must-have for essay lovers
