510 records matched your query
02583aam a2200409 i 4500 001 A4742E2AB47911EB9D5870B534ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210514010010 008 200727t20202020enk e 000 edeng 020 $a 9781526621948 020 $a 1526621940 020 $a 1526621908 020 $a 9781526621900 035 $a (OCoLC)1203935091 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 824/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Diski, Jenny, $e author. 245 10 $a Why didn't you just do what you were told? : $b essays / $c Jenny Diski ; [introduction by Mary-Kay Wilmers]. 246 3 $a Why did not you just do what you were told? 246 3 $a Why did you not just do what you were told? 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2020. 300 $a vi, 432 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a "First published in Great Britain 2020"--Title page verso. 505 00 $t A diagnosis. $t Good Housekeeping -- $t He could afford it -- $t Stinker -- $t Th natural death centre -- $t Sweetie pies -- $t A feeling for ice -- $t The girl in the attic -- $t Mrs Straus's devotion -- $t Did Jesus walk on water because he couldn't swim? -- $t Perfectly human -- $t Stinking rich -- $t My little lollipop -- $t Don't think about it -- $t Fashion as art -- $t It wasn't him, it was her -- $t XXX -- $t Mirror images -- $t My word, Miss Perkins -- $t The housekeeper of a world-shattering theory -- $t The Friendly spider programme -- $t Tunnel vision -- $t Not enjoying herself -- $t Staying awake -- $t The Khugistic scandal -- $t Toxic lozenges -- $t Never mainline -- $t Which one of you is Jesus? -- $t Zeitgeist man -- $t I haven't been nearly mad enough -- $t However I smell -- $t Post-its, push pins, pencils -- $t A diagnosis. 520 $a Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books -- selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats -- have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'. 650 0 $a English essays $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Wilmers, Mary-Kay, $e writer of introduction. 941 $a 6 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022253.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20221217010559.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064101.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20210702015542.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210702010836.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210514010039.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4742E2AB47911EB9D5870B534ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search