A Public Diary: A Review of Sarah Manguso’s “Ongoingness”

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso Graywolf Press; 104 p. Sometimes queen of heavy darkness, sometimes of blinding light, Sarah Manguso, author of two poetry collections, a short story collection, and two memoirs (Two Kinds of Decay and The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend), presents her third memoir Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, the story of her compulsive journaling, which ended with the birth of her son. Her starring, dazzlingly complex subjects are time, mortality, […]

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