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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

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Her Work Mitigated the Solitude of Parenting

By Rumaan Alam | April 29, 2016

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

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

She was balls-to-the-walls writing and dying

By Bridget Read | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

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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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