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Ongoingness/ 300 Arguments

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By (author): Sarah Manguso

'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie Smith

'Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin' Celeste Ng

A combined book of two daring works by Sarah Manguso, presented together in a rare reversible single edition.

300 ARGUMENTS

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long books quotable passages.

300 Arguments
by Sarah Manguso is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms, but the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. Mangusos arguments about writing, desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature. Lines you will underline, write in notebooks and read to the person sitting next to you, that will drift back into your mind as you try to get to sleep.

'300 Arguments reads like you've jumped into someone's mind.' NPR


ONGOINGNESS: THE END OF THE DIARY


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 something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.

Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.

Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 111 x 177mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529027624

About Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is the author of 300 Arguments Ongoingness The Guardians The Two Kinds of Decay Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize and her books have been translated into Chinese German Italian Portuguese and Spanish. Her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series and her essays have appeared in in Harpers the New York Review of Books the New York Times Magazine and the Paris Review. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing at institutions including Columbia NYU Princeton Scripps College and the University of Iowa. She lives in Los Angeles.

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