Sarah Manguso's writing delves into the intricate connections between the body, mind, and memory, often employing a distinctively spare yet resonant prose. She crafts introspective explorations that examine the profound vulnerabilities and enduring strengths of the human condition. Manguso's work is characterized by its ability to distill complex emotional landscapes into precise, luminous observations. Her unique voice offers readers deeply felt meditations on fragility and resilience.
Featuring the whimsical inquiries of children, this collection showcases the imaginative and often humorous perspectives they hold. Through the artistry of Liana Finck, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, the book brings to life the poignant and curious thoughts that reflect the wonder of childhood.
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all 'Painful and brilliant--I loved it' - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including--a few years later--all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John's ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife. As Jane's career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her. Sarah Manguso's Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.
Acclaimed writer Sarah Manguso makes her fiction debut with an icy, furious novel about the way in which a society can ignore and enable the abuse of young women, narrated by the daughter of just such an abusive mother.
A combined book of Ongoingness and 300 Arguments, two daring works by Sarah Manguso, presented together in a rare reversible single edition.
A moving, lyrical memoir of pregnancy and becoming a mother from a daring new voice, for fans of Maggie Nelson and Deborah Levy.
A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists.
“[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
An elegiac ode to love, death, and profound friendship, from the author of The Two Kinds of Decay
The most extraordinary memoir about illness and grief since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.
"Charming and highly intelligent... Poetry-phobes, fear not these wonderful poems; they may teach you to love poetry." - Dave Eggers. Sarah Manguso's debut poetry collection, "The Captain Lands in Paradise," was published in 2002, followed by several acclaimed works. She has received prestigious awards and teaches at the Pratt Institute.