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Unhappiness, the new mental illness.

Thrive: a review by me in The Guardian questioning a well-meaning crusade to improve mental health by New Labour’s ‘Happiness Tzar’. I’m all over the place, today. This time inthe LRB, on the sofa, not entirely happy with Happy Valley. http://t.co/pnWvItHFE4 Tagged: happiness, mental illness

Fairy Dust on the Pavement – The Power of Glamour

This is an review of a book, The Power of Glamour by Virginia Postrel, which was published inHarper’s Magazine last year. In the late 1970s I was pushing the pram down Heath Street, a vertiginous road in Hampstead with Heath at the top end and Hampstead Tube Station and the High Street full of […]

The Gossip

A late word about celebrity gossip from my column in Swedish in the Goteborgs-Posten. Last month, sadness and surprise settled over the nation after the news was announced of the death of Peaches Geldof, the 25 year old daughter of Bob Geldof, famous for a long defunct pop group and more so for so […]

Blackness Ever Blackening

Yet another piece on depression by me. Always something new to say. Always another angle to look at pointlessness from. Until there isn’t. This time in Mosaic. With marvellous illustrations (yes, that is me as a vile murderousyoung woman) by Martin Rowson. http://mosaicscience.com/story/blackn... Tagged: depression

Me and Her

Here’s a piece from my before translation Swedish column in the Goteborgs-Posten in the early spring. It’s spring again. I know that because the frogs are furiously at it in the pond and the faintest of greens is appearing on the birch tree. There’s even a hint of sun after the Cambridge morning mist has […]

Doris Lessing and what I learned from her about being a writer.

My time as a teenager living with Doris Lessing, and what I learned. My address at her memorial service this week. Reprinted in The Guardian. http://t.co/UkaZtSeknR Tagged: writing

I've started a new blog - This And That Continued - at ww...

I've started a new blog - This And That Continued - at www.jennydiski.wordpress.com

The paperback of my most recent book, What I Don't Know A...

The paperback of my most recent book, What I Don't Know About Animals, is now available. You might like to read it.

The Sixties - out now in paperback

The Sixties is out now in paperback with an ancient picture of me on the cover as hippie. I looked younger and surrounded by foliage. That's how it was then.

Updates - 2 July 2010

I'll be adding updating info, writing occasional new blogs, and adding pieces of writing on the This and That page at my web site: www.jennydiski.co.uk, so please check there.