Ongoingness
09 August 2018Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. ‘I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,’ she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss...
Details
09 August 201896 pages
9781509883301Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed.The New Yorker
Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.The Paris Review
Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
