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The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind
Jenny Diski in 1988. “I write fiction and nonfiction, but it’s almost always personal,” Diski said about her writing process. “I’ve never been apologetic about that nor had a sense that my writing is ‘confessional.’ What else am I going to write about but how I know and don’t know the world?”Credit.Fay Godwin/Alamy
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By Daphne Merkin
WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD?
Essays
By Jenny Diski
I’ve never been quite sure what the phrase “an acquired taste” is supposed to mean — I presume it has something to do with the subject (a writer) or object (red wine) in question not being immediately accessible or likable — but I would venture that the phrase applies to the British novelist and essayist Jenny Diski. Most critics, whatever their leanings or however widely they range, have a signature style. Diski, by contrast, can’t ....

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