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Why Literature Needs Psychology

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Two Disciplines Wrestling With the Same Big Questions

By Jennifer R. Bernstein | May 2, 2016

Remembering Jenny Diski

Remembering Jenny Diski

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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

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Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

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An Exacting Intelligence That Terrified and Inspired in Equal Measure

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Jenny Diski, My Maureen

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