Results for "Diski, Jenny"

NBCC FinalistNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEThe 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 Yor... Read More about Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and se... Read More about Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their GodFirst came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty He found dull. God resolves for a third and fin... Read More about Only Human: A Divine Comedy

A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spe... Read More about The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books (BIG IDEAS//small books)

“Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski’s is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the forest for others to follow.” -- Vanity Fair *Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017* WITH A PREFACE BY HEIDI JU... Read More about The Vanishing Princess: Stories (Art of the Story)