ONGOINGNESS

A dazzling philosophical investigation of the challenge of living in the present, by a brilliant practitioner of the new essay In he r third book, which continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso 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, n ow 800,000...[Read more]