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Sarah Manguso

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In Short

Thirty-six ways of looking at the aphorism

by Sarah Manguso ,

How to Be a Parent

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…

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

The Grand Shattering

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…

by Sarah Manguso ,

Keeping Time

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…

by Sarah Manguso ,

Memory’s Passages

The limits of autobiography

by Sarah Manguso ,

Motherhood

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…

by Sarah Manguso ,

Are You Sleeping?

In search of a good night’s rest

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

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