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Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness is a lyrical meditation on the experience of maintaining a diary for nearly four decades and the transformative moment of choosing to end the practice. In this brief but intellectually rich volume, Manguso reflects on how the daily act of recording her life shaped her identity, consciousness, and relationship to time itself.
The book explores the paradox of diary-keeping: the attempt to capture the present moment inevitably transforms it. Manguso examines how obsessively documenting life can become a substitute for living it, and how the diary served as both a creative anchor and a potential prison. With philosophical depth and crystalline prose, she investigates memory, mortality, and what it means to stop bearing witness to one’s own existence through written words.
Part literary essay, part confession, Ongoingness offers readers a profound meditation on attention, presence, and the narratives we construct about ourselves.
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