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April 23, 2015
My Reply to the Guardian
Dear Gemma When you say you don’t pay fees unfortunately, I suppose you must mean unforturnately for me. I have bills to pay and I don’t have a wealthy husband or wife. Why on earth would The Guardian be unable to pay me? Because everyone is a freelance now, with the emphasis on free? Because […]
February 25, 2015
Why Didn’t I Do What I was Told?
Why didn’t I just do what I was told? The next instalment of my memoir in the new LRB. Free access http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/jenny-di... memoir.
February 23, 2015
Sidebar to LRB memoir: Fish, there are fish!
I took my broken wrist, along with my pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer, for a review at Addenbrookes. Not a good review. The fracture in my radius has dilated and shifted, like tiny tectonic plates, maybe, so it’s now a complex break. I could have an op to shore up the structure with a metal […]
February 19, 2015
A Sidebar: How’s It going?
In the London Review of Books��(starting with A Diagnosis in September)��I’ve been writing a more or less monthly memoir of my life in the sixties and seventies when I lived with Doris Lessing, and my continuing relationship with her until her death last year at 94. It is also an ongoing portrait of my incurable […]
January 28, 2015
Radiotherapy Days
Radiotherapy Days. Next instalment of memoir/diary #LRB: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n03/jenny-di... via @LRB 24 hrs FREE access to this and all the archive ��if you register.
December 24, 2014
Christmas wishes and thanks.
Thank you for reading the blog, and other stuff of mine.Have a lovely Christmas and holiday. And agood New Year.
1963 A newcomer to table-talk
1963 The first few months…The next instalment of my memoir/diary about Doris Lessing and my cancer is online in the new LRB.http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n01/jenny-di...
December 12, 2014
Depp and Desire
Back at the beginning of this year, the celebrity timetable that decrees what is going to be in our gossip columns and fill acres of newsprint and internet pages in any given week, reminded editors around the world that Kate Moss was having her fortieth birthday. The inevitable series of ‘Kate Moss this is your […]
November 27, 2014
The Screaming Gynaecologist
The 4th instalment of my cancer diary/Lessing memoir is online in the new LRB. Subs only.
October 31, 2014
August 2014
This was written in August to be translated for my column in the Swedish Goteborgs-Posten. Some things are best met with silence. If I were to proceed with this month’s column in an honest way, it would be a blank page, without words. The imaginary blankness of the page represents the other blanknesses I have […]
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