{"product_id":"why-didnt-you-just-do-what-you-were-told","title":"Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNBCC Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, \"an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline\" (\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eselected by the legendary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Diski expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books--\u003c\/i\u003eselected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude--have been described as \"virtuoso performances,\" and \"small masterpieces.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, \u003ci\u003eWhy Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?\u003c\/i\u003e is an interrogation of universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated--and mordantly funny. With an afterword by her daughter, Chloe Diski, this is a must-have for essay lovers everywhere.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833514504397,"sku":"9781635579611","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_a421b0a2-cbb3-4d78-bcc4-6fffda94fe6e.jpg?v=1790887486","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/why-didnt-you-just-do-what-you-were-told","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}