Jenny Diski's Blog

Warning – this article may contain sentimentality. Last week here in the UK and around Europe there was a bit of a stir when the Copenhagen Zoo announced that it was going to kill an 18 month-old giraffe called Marius. The giraffe was surplus to requirements, and although other zoos offered to take Marius in […]

For the third time this month I’ve locked myself out of my online banking facility. Each time I have run over the limit of making three mistakes in my password. A very polite note explained that I would not be able to use the account until I phoned the bank, who would sort it out […]

The smell of freedom is so strong that it’s like on of those classic perfumes. It liners with a real sense of how it was. The nurse stood with with her back to the drugs trolley as if I were going to runaway withthem all, ‘I won’t let you go.’ You mean you’d section me?’ […]

Sometimes you feel that you’ve won a deadly battle against the forces. I mean The Flrces. may it leave you alone. In Hospital s week ago or so with pneumonia The longer you stay the longer you become part of the system. meals at a certain time, pills all at the same time, lights out […]

A new piece in my memoir. An update. How’s it going. As can be expected. in the LRB new issue online. When will people start drumming their fingers on the table saying ‘she said she was going. How much longer?’

Stupidest question ever? Make up your own mind in the new LRB. Next slice of Diski & Doris is online but sub needed. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n15/jenny-di...

Here’s a big fat profile of me in the New York Times Magazine, out in print this weekend. By Giles Harvey.

I jumped out of my bedroom window so I wouldn’t have to speak to anyone downstairs having breakfast. New Installment of my memoir in the LRB. Leaving Doris.http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n11/jenny-di...

So excited by 1947 bw English B movie. Can’t imagine sleeping tonight. Take My Life. Marius Goring, Greta Gynt. Justice prevails. As it should. Though if arguments prevail, I’m afraid that this hasn’t got a hope in hell. What kept audiences glued to their seats can only have been the prospect of the main movie. […]

Dear Michael I’ve got no interest in publicity cycles, I am not an employee of publishers. And your mixed bag of fascinating speakers and others who are trying to promote books instead of publishers paying for what they are supposed to be doing leaves me cold. You can call payment a fee, an expense or […]