In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
Nina Schuyler reviews In Gratitude by Jenny Diski today in Rumpus Books.
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Defiantly Diski
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, and without the persistent awareness that its author was … experiencing the very last days or hours or minutes of her life, Diski’s final book […]
...moreRemembering Jenny Diski
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 untie: …the year before her diagnosis, Jenny invokes the bleak wisdom of Beckett’s line, “Birth was the death of him.” She wonders with Nabokov why […]
...moreFrederick Tuten Remembers Jenny Diski
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 in 1999, Tuten interviewed Diski for BOMB Magazine: Do you know what Andy Warhol said? Art—isn’t that a guy’s name?
...moreDo You Remember That Thing?
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 who have lost their words more comprehensively than the friends around our lunch table, but haven’t lost themselves entirely. A book about where all the […]
...moreLike Peeping Over the Edge of the World
“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 on its way without knowing when exactly it will arrive. Jenny Diski has inoperable lung cancer—and the prolific British essayist has chosen to write through […]
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