Five Books Making News This Week: History, Hilltops, and Horses

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Five Books Making News This Week: Legends, Looting, and Lambs

Five Books Making News This Week: Legends, Looting, and Lambs

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Remembering Jenny Diski

Remembering Jenny Diski

1947-2016

By Literary Hub | April 29, 2016

@diski, Inventive to the Last

@diski, Inventive to the Last

She was always open, critical, combative, funny, warm, and unafraid

By Joanna Walsh | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

She Knew What She Meant

By Michelle Dean | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

An Exacting Intelligence That Terrified and Inspired in Equal Measure

By Charlotte Shane | April 29, 2016

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Jenny Diski, My Maureen

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Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

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Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

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Jenny Diski Understood Things That No One Else Could Explain

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Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

no bullshit, no sugar-coating, no imposed toughness

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Five Books Making News This Week: Space, C.D. Wright, and Fake Steve Jobs

Five Books Making News This Week: Space, C.D. Wright, and Fake Steve Jobs

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Five Books Making News This Week: Poets, Pretensions, and Burglaries

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Philip Caputo Remembers Jim Harrison

Philip Caputo Remembers Jim Harrison

An Unexpected Night in the Wild

By Philip Caputo | March 31, 2016

Richard Flanagan Remembers Jim Harrison

Richard Flanagan Remembers Jim Harrison

He Viewed the World and All Things Within it With Weary Wonder

By Richard Flanagan | March 31, 2016

Jimmy Buffett Remembers Jim Harrison

Jimmy Buffett Remembers Jim Harrison

"Wait Till You Meet Harrison..."

By Jimmy Buffett | March 31, 2016

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