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.
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 ...
American writer Heidi Julavits' generous, keen, penetrating introduction to Jenny Diski’s posthumous story collection, “The Vanishing Princess,” calls Diski ...
Prolific novelist and essayist who wrote a regular column about her diagnosis with inoperable cancer for the London Review of Books, has died The author Jenny Diski, who had been writing a serialised ...
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 ...
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