Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, by Sarah Manguso
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, by Sarah Manguso
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“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” ―The New Yorker
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.
“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
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, by Sarah Manguso- Amazon Sales Rank: #63845 in Books
- Brand: Manguso, Sarah
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.72" h x .44" w x 4.29" l, .62 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 104 pages
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“[Manguso is] a Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis, both in the way she distills complex thoughts on time and memory into pure essence and in how she examines writing as a means of control. . . . While Manguso's thoughts are inward, they work outward--from her life to life itself. Read as either a meditative essay or a revealing confessional poem, this is a thoughtful, reflective look at one talented writer's creative evolution.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time--about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.” ―Miranda July
“The memoir form is shaken up and reinvented in this brilliant meditation on time and record-keeping. Ongoingness is a short book but there's nothing small about it. Sarah Manguso covers vast territory with immense subtlety and enviable wit.” ―Jenny Offill
“It seemed scarcely possible that, after The Two Kinds of Decay and The Guardians, Sarah Manguso's work could get more urgent, but somehow it has. Ongoingness confronts the deepest processes and myths of life and death: birth, marriage, illness, mourning, motherhood, art. Underwriting this book, as is true of all of Manguso's books, is writing itself. Or, rather, the writing is about itself in the best, most vital sense. Our author/narrator/speaker/heroine is never not asking the most fundamental question, namely, Why live? The seriousness of the inquiry gives this book extraordinary purpose, momentum, and value. I am in awe.” ―David Shields
“Sarah Manguso's personal meditation on time and memory begins at the center of a dilemma: how to let time go by without losing the life it contains. Ongoingness is a diary turned inside out, an answer to the writer's question, 'what do I do with all the words of my life.' It's a quiet argument for letting go and going on.” ―Lewis Hyde
About the Author Sarah Manguso is the author of three memoirs, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay; a story collection; and two poetry collections. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at St. Mary’s College.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Get this book now! By Meghan Cleary This is book is one of the most profound, and indeed calming, I've read that captures the human experience, especially as a mother. Cutting through all conventional wisdom, and the chatter of the day, Manguso is most of all one of our most cherished philosophers who elevates the everyday to the mystical. It is a slim tome -- you can easily read it in one sitting -- yet you will be deeply affected by it and most likely go back again and again for pearls of wisdom. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Manguso packs in a lot of ideas, not only about motherhood and the writing life, but also about the hubris of youth. By Bookreporter Sarah Manguso has written two previous memoirs. One, THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY, is an account of her own debilitating illness when she was in college. The other, THE GUARDIANS, is an elegy for a close friend of hers who committed suicide as a young adult. Both books were spare and precise in style, deliberately eschewing the kinds of easy clichés that can mar this genre. Now Manguso, also an award-winning poet, returns with a third memoir about a different type of writing --- and how and why she is finally letting it go."Like many girls I was given a diary," writes Manguso in ONGOINGNESS. "I wrote in it every now and then out of a sense of duty…. I didn't need a diary then. I wasn't yet aware of how much I was forgetting." By contrast, by the time she was in college, she was near-obsessive in her desire to document even the most mundane aspects of her daily life --- perhaps especially those mundane moments. But even as she struggled to record the moments of her life, Manguso was painfully aware that even the most conscientious documentation --- and hers was thorough indeed, amounting to more than 800,000 words --- still misses whole moments: "To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records." Manguso's desire to record every significant moment was accompanied by a fear that she is recording (and, by extension, remembering) the "wrong" things, making the wrong choices about what to include and what to omit.But as Manguso entered her 30s and became a mother, she found that her understanding of remembering, forgetting and time itself started to shift somewhat. "I began to inhabit time differently," she writes. "It had something to do with mortality. I kept writing the diary, but my worry about the lost memories began to subside." In part, Manguso speculates, the shift had to do with the role --- of continuous presence, of reliable background --- she played for her infant son. The difference also has to do with the quality and direction of her attention. "I'm not really paying attention to what's happening to me anymore --- no longer observing steadfastly the things that have changed since yesterday." Instead, she writes about her son, "he needed me more than I needed to write about him."For such a spare and slender book --- the memoir is fewer than a hundred pages, many of which are no longer than a sentence or two --- Manguso packs in a lot of ideas, not only about motherhood and the writing life, but also about the hubris of youth and the contemplation of one's own mortality that comes with age. As in her previous memoirs, she also calls herself out when she fears (rightly or wrongly) that she's veering too close to sentimentality, an easy trap when writing about one's children: "Watching him learn things is like watching a machine become intelligent, or an animal become a different animal. It's terrifying and beautiful, and this has all been said before."Because of its small size and fragmentary style, ONGOINGNESS is a book that lends itself equally well to being read in a single sitting or in fits and starts. Readers will want to return to it again and again as they consider their own relationships to documenting, remembering and just plain living their lives.Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Just had the luck of hearing Sarah Manguso read from ... By kit reader Just had the luck of hearing Sarah Manguso read from Ongoingness and came right home to order my copy. She makes me pay a new kind of attention. Now if only she could make me write her kind of sentence--simply gorgeous!
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