{"product_id":"ongoingness-300-arguments-9781529027624","title":"Ongoingness\/ 300 Arguments","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOngoingness\/ 300 Arguments\u003c\/strong\u003e by Manguso, Sarah. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781529027624.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire. Zadie Smith\nJam-packed with insights youll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin Celeste Ng\nA combined book of two daring works by Sarah Manguso, presented together in a rare reversible single edition.\n\n300 ARGUMENTS\nThink of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book’s quotable passages.\n\n300 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.\n300 Arguments reads like youve jumped into someones mind. NPR\nONGOINGNESS: THE END OF THE DIARY\nIn 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.\nThen 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.\nOngoingness 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254476333109,"sku":"ByrdShop_1529027624","price":92.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781529027624_9d331aa1-b1ba-4f1d-88f5-bbf93d97f6be.jpg?v=1779960377","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ongoingness-300-arguments-9781529027624","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}