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The stories collected in The Vanishing Princess reveal a writer avidly experimenting with voice and structure and execution. Originally published in England in 1995, the stories rove across the aesthetic map. The title story reads like a cheekier, more bitingly urbane take on one of Angela Carter’s stories from The Bloody Chamber. “Leaper” starts on a frank, smart-alecky Grace Paley note before stealthily shifting into oblique emotional territory (I’d say more about this story but I don’t want to ruin anything). “Bath Time” tracks a woman’s lifelong dream to have a perfect bath, and balances the absurd with the penny-pinching real. - Heidi Julavits
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About the Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, five books of travel and memoir, two volumes of essays, and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in the London Review of Books, among other publications. She died in Cambridge in April 2016.
About the Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Culture+Travel, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly. Her most recent novel is the The Folded A Diary.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
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About the Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, five books of travel and memoir, two volumes of essays, and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in the London Review of Books, among other publications. She died in Cambridge in April 2016.
About the Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Culture+Travel, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly. Her most recent novel is the The Folded A Diary.
About the Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
32 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 3, 2017
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Jenny Diski
37 books152 followersJenny Diski was a British writer. Diski was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction articles, reviews and books. She was awarded the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.
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August 20, 2020
i've basically highlighted the entire story. and not to be that person but it's given me so many ideas for my ~~novel
i'll definitely check out the other EL recs
i'll definitely check out the other EL recs
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