{"product_id":"9781526621900","title":"Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, \"one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), selected by\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Mary-Kay Wilmers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated--and mordantly funny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diski, Jenny","offers":[{"title":"Hardback \/ Literary Criticism","offer_id":48446730797280,"sku":null,"price":22.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_23b3fd95-850b-41d3-8bb5-911fd35c325a.jpg?v=1766066000","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781526621900","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}