Sarah Manguso

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In Short

By Sarah Manguso,

Discussed in this essay: Short Flights: Thirty-two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit, edited by James Lough and Alex Stein. Schaffner Press. 236 pages. $16.95. Last Aphorisms,…

How to Be a Parent

By A. Balkan, Sarah Manguso, Rivka Galchen, Pamela Druckerman, Michelle Tea, Emma Donoghue, Ben Lerner, Ellen Rosenbush, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Claire Messud,

These are tough times for parents. Not because child rearing has gotten any harder — it’s the same as it ever was — but because we are newly overrich in hand-wringing books…

The Grand Shattering

By Sarah Manguso,

I never wanted to be a mother. I wanted to be a person. My identity crisis began at age three, when I wanted to be Popeye but realized that I…

Keeping Time

By Sarah Manguso,

By Sarah Manguso, from Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, out in March from Graywolf Press. Manguso is the author of several books, including The Guardians and The Two Kinds…

Memory’s Passages

By Sarah Manguso,

Discussed in this essay: Pieces of Light, by Charles Fernyhough. Harper. 320 pages. $26.99. The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit. Viking. 272 pages. $25.95. I started keeping a daily diary…

Motherhood

By Sarah Manguso,

In the beginning, waiting for the baby to feed or stop feeding or burp or pass wind or yellow liquid shit, I postponed showers, phone calls, bowel movements. With the…

Are You Sleeping?

By Rebecca Curtis, A. Roger Ekirch, Heidi Julavits, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Sarah Manguso, Hamilton Morris, Christine Smallwood, Rebecca Solnit, Deb Olin Unferth,

Heidi Julavits, “Restlessness”A. Roger Ekirch, “Segmented Sleep”Deb Olin Unferth, “Neighbors”Christine Smallwood, “Bed-wetting”Rebecca Curtis, “Herbal Remedies”Hamilton Morris, “Gaboxadol”Rebecca Solnit, “Insomnia”Sarah Manguso, “Motherhood”Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Sleeping Together” Read More

From this author

In Short

How to Be a Parent

The Grand Shattering

Keeping Time

Memory’s Passages

Motherhood

Are You Sleeping?

August 2013