Solo traveller Jenny Diski, a contributor to Issue 2 of Interlitq, overcomes the suspicions of others

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Women shouldn’t be afraid to travel alone. It’s the best” (Claire Cohen, The Telegraph, 21.02.13): ”I get on by being a writer. People can be very suspicious, but once you tell them that they just nod sagely. It’s easier if you have a task,” agrees author and veteran solo traveller Jenny Diski.

Writing in the LRB blog in “The most normal I’ve been” (28.12.12), Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, states “I’ve listened to a podcast of three chapters of Beyond Good and Evil, and agreed with every word Nietzsche has to say”

Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq

Writing in the LRB blog in “The most normal I’ve been” (28.12.12), Jenny Diski, the British author who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, states “I’ve listened to a podcast of three chapters of Beyond Good and Evil, and agreed with every word Nietzsche has to say”.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

In “Learning to Deal with Loathsome Men” (London Review of Books, 10.10.12), Jenny Diski, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, writes: “If you lived through the 1960s and 1970s, and are a woman, it’s really hard to be shocked or surprised by the tolerated sexism back then that’s currently crawling out of the woodwork. It wasn’t in the woodwork at the time. It was just there, in the air you breathed, in the world you walked about in”

Jenny Diski by Michael Bennett

In “Learning to Deal with Loathsome Men” (London Review of Books, 10.10.12), Jenny Diski, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, writes: “If you lived through the 1960s and 1970s, and are a woman, it’s really hard to be shocked or surprised by the tolerated sexism back then that’s currently crawling out of the woodwork. It wasn’t in the woodwork at the time. It was just there, in the air you breathed, in the world you walked about in.”

Writing in The Guardian (February 3rd, 2012) in her article “Big cats in Stroud is better than nothing”, Jenny Diski, a contributor to Issue 2 of Interlitq, concludes: “Doubtless there are evolutionary psychologists who would claim that we are the carriers of genes adapted to staying alert for wild beasts jumping out at us, and that our regular sightings and belief in big cats are just Darwinian anachronisms. Freudians will know exactly what part of the family romance those wild cats really represent, while Jungians might suppose that the cats are just rather restrained English versions of the archetypal Other. All are probably true enough. In our tidy, civilised lives we still have space for Conrad’s ‘the horror, the horror’ and Henry James’s ‘beast in the jungle’, which turn out to be the terror and thrill we feel at the potential of our own murky interiors”

Writing in The Guardian (February 3rd, 2012) in her article “Big cats in Stroud is better than nothing”, Jenny Diski, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, concludes: “Doubtless there are evolutionary psychologists who would claim that we are the carriers of genes adapted to staying alert for wild beasts jumping out at us, and that our regular sightings and belief in big cats are just Darwinian anachronisms. Freudians will know exactly what part of the family romance those wild cats really represent, while Jungians might suppose that the cats are just rather restrained English versions of the archetypal Other. All are probably true enough. In our tidy, civilised lives we still have space for Conrad’s ‘the horror, the horror’ and Henry James’s ‘beast in the jungle’, which turn out to be the terror and thrill we feel at the potential of our own murky interiors”.

Writing about the Falklands (Malvinas) in The London Review of Books (March 8th, 2012), in her piece “Short Cuts” Jenny Diski, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, writes “what can there be but embarrassment at the sight of a backwater in the world-power game puffing itself up like an elephant seal to fight for its colonies?” and continues, “It’s true we’re a bit desperate and could use the offshore oil and gas, but that doesn’t mean we ought to have it when the shore it is off is not ours”

Writing about the Falklands (Malvinas) in The London Review of Books (March 8th, 2012), in her piece “Short Cuts” Jenny Diski, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 2 of Interlitq, writes “what can there be but embarrassment at the sight of a backwater in the world-power game puffing itself up like an elephant seal to fight for its colonies?” and continues, “It’s true we’re a bit desperate and could use the offshore oil and gas, but that doesn’t mean we ought to have it when the shore it is off is not ours”.