Finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismNothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny Sunday TimesFunny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise Emilia ClarkeShe expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be 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 MaryKay 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 Didnt You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche original, opinionated and mordantly funny.

Binding: Paperback;448 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DNF; Weight: 434 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 32

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