Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...
To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...
The Vanishing Princess finds Diski in reflective mode. The first story is about the eponymous princess, but its subtitle—“Or, The Origin of Cubism”—suggests something more than a modern fairytale.
American writer Heidi Julavits' generous, keen, penetrating introduction to Jenny Diski’s posthumous story collection, “The Vanishing Princess,” calls Diski ...
The late Jenny Diski’s memoir reflects on mortality and her complicated relationship with Doris Lessing with equal candour I had just finished this remarkable book and this review, when I heard of ...
Animal enthusiasts have no shortage of reading options these days. Inside of a Dog, You Had Me At Woof, and Unlikely Friendships have all topped bestseller lists recently, bringing pet owners closer ...
WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD? By Jenny Diski. Bloomsbury. 432 pages. $28. Jenny Diski’s death of lung cancer in 2016 left a Diski-sized gap in the pages of the “London Review of Books,” ...
Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured. Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to ...
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