Manguso] has written the memoir we didn\'t realize we needed. --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings.
A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read. . . -- The Paris Review Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life .
Ongoingness reads variously as an addict\'s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy. . .
Bold, elegant, and honest .
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.
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.
Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.
But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important.
I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, she explains.
In it, she confronts a meticulous Diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. -- The New Yorker In Ongoingness , Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay.
Manguso] has written the memoir we didn\'t realize we needed
