Over at the New York Times, author Heidi Julavits reviews the late Jenny Diski’s memoir, In Gratitude: While I couldn’t read “In Gratitude” without a persistent lump in my throat,…
At n+1, philosopher and writer Justin E.H. Smith remembers Jenny Diski, and shares their correspondence. For Diski, death was always the subject, the knot to admire, wryly, and attempt to…
Writer Frederick Tuten recalls the first fan letter he ever wrote to novelist Jenny Diski. What followed was a friendship which lasted until her death last month from cancer. Back…
Where do our words go when we lose them? Jenny Diski embarks on an exploration into vanishing vocabulary: So I had a thought about writing a book for the elderly, the old. Those…
“It’s like peeping over the edge of the world while remembering you’ve left your spectacles on the kitchen table,” she writes of her cruelly paradoxical situation: knowing that death is…