{"product_id":"why-didnt-you-just-do-what-you-were-told-essays-9781635579611","title":"Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNBCC Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline (\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eselected by the legendary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be. --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books--\u003c\/i\u003eselected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude--have been described as virtuoso performances, and small masterpieces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, \u003ci\u003eWhy Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?\u003c\/i\u003e is an interrogation of universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated--and mordantly funny. With an afterword by her daughter, Chloe Diski, this is a must-have for essay lovers everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635579611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"Jenny Diski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095616360629,"sku":"9781635579611","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0bebe9a9-3788-4b07-b265-4f7ab27991bc.jpg?v=1651588248","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/why-didnt-you-just-do-what-you-were-told-essays-9781635579611","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}