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Ongoingness

Name: Ongoingness
ISBN: 1555977650

: The End of a Diary

“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” ―The New YorkerIn Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has ke

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“Maybe the best way to remember anything accurately is to write it down and forget it, and then, only at the last moment of your life, to recall it—like listening to a broken tape by hand-feeding it one last time through the tape player.”

— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com

Tagged: Remembering Things, Memory