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In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet. In August 2014, Jenny Diski was dia ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience - and to tell a story she had not yet t ...Show more
What I Don't Know About Animals by DISKI JENNY
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Category: Biography & Memoir
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have l ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE. 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 - New Yorker. Jenny Diski ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 ...Show more
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