Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? Essays

NBCC FinalistNEW 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 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 everywhere.

ISBN:	9781635579611
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Published date:	28 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	824.914
Language:	English
Number of pages:	448
Weight:	472g
Height:	210mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	31mm

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