'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 book's
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.
Manguso's 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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