Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, most recently the novels Liars and Very Cold People, and a recent work of crowd-sourced philosophy, Questions Without Answers. Her writing has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. On today's show, Annmarie and Sarah discuss the wisdom of children, parenting as an act of translation, and the innate satisfaction and delight found within even the most unanswerable questions. Bookshop will be offering a 15% discount on the book which they've allowed us to share with our listeners. The code is QA15 : https://tinyurl.com/QA15OFF Episode Sponsors: McNally Jackson – Independent booksellers with locations in Nolita, Williamsburg, Seaport, Rockefeller, and Downtown Brooklyn. To find your next great read, drop by or shop online at www.mcnallyjackson.com Annabelle's Book Club LA – A highly curated collection of books and gifts with a modern point of view. Founded by 17-year-old Annabelle Chang, this YA-focused bookstore aims to spark imagination, inspire connection, and bring joy to people of all ages. Stop or find us online at annabellesbookclubla.com. Authors and Titles Mentioned in This Episode: Questions Without Answers, by Sarah Manguso and illustrated by Liana Finck Liars, by Sarah Manguso Mixed Feelings, by Liana Finck Gwendoline Riley Here's a trailer for Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Follow Sarah Manguso and Liana Finck: Instagram: @lianafinck Twitter: @lianafinck Substack: @lianafinck AND @sarahmanguso sarahmanguso.com lianafinck.com Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan **Writing Workshops and Wish Fulfillment:  If you liked this conversation and are interested in writing abroad, consider joining Annmarie and co-leader Athena Dixon for a writing retreat in Italy in September, 2025. You can travel to a beautiful place, meet other wise women, and write your own stories. We'd love to help you make your wishes come true.  As of this moment, we only have 2 spots left. This will sell out. Act now and join us! Or for women interested in an online Saturday morning writing circle, you can sign up here or message Annmarie to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Ep. 187, Kathleen Schmidt, author of the popular Substack newsletter, Publishing Confidential, joins Sarah to dissect and discuss the State of the Publishing Industry in 2024. Between a high-level look back, talk about the top sales and book trends, to what Kathleen sees on the horizon for 2025 in the book world, this episode is packed with info. Also, Kathleen shares her favorite books of 2024! This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog. Highlights 2024 bookish news and publishing trends overview. Kathleen grades last year's crop of books with an overall B+. How the middle-aged woman / menopause stories might shake out to be the next buzzy books. The ways the full book market is oversaturated. The impact TikTok still has on the book world. Kathleen breaks down the side-eye publishing attracts from other industries with its oddball business model.  Taylor Swift remains a hot topic in publishing with The Eras Tour Book. Did Spotify's entrance into audiobooks make a noticeable impact? The secret struggle of memoirs. Anticipating 2025's potential bookish trends. State of the Publishing Industry in 2024 High-Level Overview [2:02] All Fours by Miranda July (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [6:12] Sandwich by Catherine Newman (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [6:27] The New Menopause by Mary Claire Haver (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [6:58]   2024 Book Sales and Trends [9:35]  Leaving by Roxana Robinson (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:11]  Splinters by Leslie Jamison (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:14]  Liars by Sarah Manguso (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:16]  Crush by Ada Calhoun (Feb 25, 2025) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:17]  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:39] Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (Jan 14, 2025) | Amazon | Bookshop.org[31:41]  Big Book Stories of 2024 [34:18] The Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book (Target Exclusive)(2024) [38:21]  2025 Publishing Predictions [42:48] Kathleen's 3 Favorites Books of 2024 [46:41] Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (2024) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:01]  Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:23] Foster by Claire Keegan (2010) | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [47:54]  Other Links Publishing Confidential • Substack | What Book Publishing Needs to Consider in 2025

Our guests today are Daniel Handler and Sarah Manguso.Daniel Handler has written dozens of books – from adult novels like “The Basic Eight” and “Why We Broke Up”, to picture books and other collaborations with visual artists. But, he's best known as the author of “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” Handler wrote the best-selling children's novels – 13 in total –  under the pen name Lemony Snicket.  On July 24, 2024, Handler came to the KQED Studios in San Francisco to talk to his friend and fellow writer Sarah Manguso. Both Handler and Manguso had recently published new works - Handler's is a memoir titled “And Then? And Then? What Else?” Sarah Manguso's newest book is a novel called "Liars".

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit motherofitall.substack.comSarah and Miranda check in on Miranda's daughter's very first day of big kid school (even though she claims she's “still little”), watch the just-dropped Nightbitch trailer in real time, discuss Sarah's impending move after 15 years in the same apartment, and talk hetero-exceptionalism and Sarah Manguso's “Liars,” family camp and “Get S**t Done Days.”Links:* Nightbitch Trailer* Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst* How to Manage Back to School Feelings by Sarah* Liars by Sarah Manguso* Tracy Clark-Floryon hetero-exceptionalism* Kathryn Jezer-Morton on affirmation culture in Brooding* Female Friends Spend Raucous Night Validating the S**t Out of Each Other in the Onion* Berenstain Bears Moving Day

Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Detailing Shane's many years as a sex worker, the book is also a candid examination of her own sexuality, as well as her deep fascination with the sex lives and interior worlds of men. Shane writes about the importance of her early “sexperimentation” with a group of close guy friends in high school; the nuances of her relationship to her father, her husband, and her clients—especially the almost decade long bond she shared with one of them named Roger. She comes to sex work, and even heterosexuality, with both curiosity and empathy, as well as a feminist perspective. Her book focuses less on matters of harm and power than the intricacies of desire and the variety of intimacy possible between women and men. Also, Sarah Manguso, author of Liars, returns to recommend Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy.

Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Detailing Shane's many years as a sex worker, the book is also a candid examination of her own sexuality, as well as her deep fascination with the sex lives and interior worlds of men. Shane writes about the importance of her early “sexperimentation” with a group of close guy friends in high school; the nuances of her relationship to her father, her husband, and her clients—especially the almost decade long bond she shared with one of them named Roger. She comes to sex work, and even heterosexuality, with both curiosity and empathy, as well as a feminist perspective. Her book focuses less on matters of harm and power than the intricacies of desire and the variety of intimacy possible between women and men. Also, Sarah Manguso, author of Liars, returns to recommend Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy.

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Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, most recently the novel LIARS. Her work's been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize, and her writing has been translated into thirteen languages. On today's show, Sarah and Annmarie discuss marriage and how our best intentions often crumble in the face of gender roles, misogyny, the patriarchy, and myriad forces so much larger than we are. Episode Sponsors: McNally Jackson – Independent booksellers with locations in Nolita, Williamsburg, Seaport, Rockefeller, and Downtown Brooklyn. To find your next great read, drop by or shop online at www.mcnallyjackson.com Annabelle's Book Club LA – A highly curated collection of books and gifts with a modern point of view. Founded by 17-year-old Annabelle Chang, this YA-focused bookstore aims to spark imagination, inspire connection, and bring joy to people of all ages. Stop or find us online at annabellesbookclubla.com. Stories Mentioned in this Episode: Liars, by Sarah Manguso Learn more about Amber Heard and Gabby Petito. Creep, by Myriam Gurba Follow Sarah Manguso: sarahmanguso.com Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When author Sarah Manguso was going through a divorce a few years ago, she says she put her rage into writing her novel Liars. It's about the dissolution of a marriage, and a woman reckoning with the failures of her relationship on a personal and societal level. In today's episode, Manguso tells NPR's Andrew Limbong how her protagonist's experiences differ from her own, and why different characters are to blame for the lying mentioned in the title.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, Liars, which focuses on a marriage and its disintegration. Jane is a writer, and her husband John is an artist and entrepreneur. Even early on in their relationship, John gives Jane plenty of reason to doubt their future. By the time they have their first child, Jane is subsumed by the role of wife and mother, responsible for tackling the domestic work as well as the chaos of John's finances and shifting career ambitions, and ultimately his betrayal. The novel focuses on the trespasses of a single relationship, but it's also about art, wifehood, and the institution of marriage itself, as well as the stories we tell about it from inside and outside its vows. Also, Dayna Tortorici, co-editor of The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade, returns to recommend All Fours by Miranda July.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, Liars, which focuses on a marriage and its disintegration. Jane is a writer, and her husband John is an artist and entrepreneur. Even early on in their relationship, John gives Jane plenty of reason to doubt their future. By the time they have their first child, Jane is subsumed by the role of wife and mother, responsible for tackling the domestic work as well as the chaos of John's finances and shifting career ambitions, and ultimately his betrayal. The novel focuses on the trespasses of a single relationship, but it's also about art, wifehood, and the institution of marriage itself, as well as the stories we tell about it from inside and outside its vows. Also, Dayna Tortorici, co-editor of The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade, returns to recommend All Fours by Miranda July.

Liars by Sarah Manguso takes a loving marriage and flips it on its head, one painful revelation at a time. Manguso joins us to talk about artistic expression, the importance of experimentation and instinct in writing, survival through storytelling and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.           Featured Books (Episode): Liars by Sarah Manguso Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Sarah Manguso joins Laura to talk about her newest book, Liars. Telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, Liars depicts the slow and normalized forms of abuse and misogyny baked into marriage. Pre-order liars now, for release on July 23rd.Sarah Manguso's book tour comes to San Francisco on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 7:00pm @ The Booksmith! Details and RSVP here.Sarah Manguso is a poet and author of nine books. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine. Her work has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her writing has been translated into twelve languages.

Sarah Manguso has written the ultimate chump novel: Liars. Jane is a woman who endures marriage to, and divorce from, a textbook fuckwit. It dramatizes marital betrayal, narcissistic abuse, and coercive control in a way we all know deep in our bones.   Manguso says, "It's a novel, so of course it's all fiction—except for the parts that are true." During the pandemic, Manguso's cheating husband abandoned her and their son. It became fodder for Liars.  She the author of nine books, most recently the novel Very Cold People. Liars, is forthcoming on July 23 from Hogarth Books in the US and August 22 from Picador in the UK. Her other books include a story collection, two poetry collections, and four acclaimed works of nonfiction: 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her work has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, and her writing has been translated into twelve languages. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles.

What's the truth and what's a lie? What's a memoir, what's a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and her second novel, Liars, is forthcoming. Tess and Sarah discuss how the threshold between truth and fiction is often used to minimize writing by women and how characters can achieve escape velocity against the pull of violence and abuse. We learn that Sarah doesn't imagine an audience when she writes—instead, writing articulates something felt in the body, something that remains “uncomfortable until it is so articulated.” From the Yankee thrift of book design and the writing of front matter, acknowledgements, and Sarah's brilliant titles, we move to 70s-era typography and wordplay with the answer to Season 7's signature question. Mentions: By Sarah Manguso: Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, The Two Kinds of Decay and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape in One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in A Small Box by Deb Olin Unferth, Sarah Manguso, and Dave Eggers Hilary Mantel Lord Byron, “If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad,” from an 1821 letter published in Volume 8 of Byron's Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A. Marchand. Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What's the truth and what's a lie? What's a memoir, what's a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and her second novel, Liars, is forthcoming. Tess and Sarah discuss how the threshold between truth and fiction is often used to minimize writing by women and how characters can achieve escape velocity against the pull of violence and abuse. We learn that Sarah doesn't imagine an audience when she writes—instead, writing articulates something felt in the body, something that remains “uncomfortable until it is so articulated.” From the Yankee thrift of book design and the writing of front matter, acknowledgements, and Sarah's brilliant titles, we move to 70s-era typography and wordplay with the answer to Season 7's signature question. Mentions: By Sarah Manguso: Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, The Two Kinds of Decay and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape in One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in A Small Box by Deb Olin Unferth, Sarah Manguso, and Dave Eggers Hilary Mantel Lord Byron, “If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad,” from an 1821 letter published in Volume 8 of Byron's Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A. Marchand. Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

What's the truth and what's a lie? What's a memoir, what's a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and her second novel, Liars, is forthcoming. Tess and Sarah discuss how the threshold between truth and fiction is often used to minimize writing by women and how characters can achieve escape velocity against the pull of violence and abuse. We learn that Sarah doesn't imagine an audience when she writes—instead, writing articulates something felt in the body, something that remains “uncomfortable until it is so articulated.” From the Yankee thrift of book design and the writing of front matter, acknowledgements, and Sarah's brilliant titles, we move to 70s-era typography and wordplay with the answer to Season 7's signature question. Mentions: By Sarah Manguso: Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, The Two Kinds of Decay and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape in One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in A Small Box by Deb Olin Unferth, Sarah Manguso, and Dave Eggers Hilary Mantel Lord Byron, “If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad,” from an 1821 letter published in Volume 8 of Byron's Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A. Marchand. Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Oh, wow, get ready for Adrienne Gruber's amazing conversation about her fourth book, which is also her first essay collection, MONSTERS, MARTYRS AND MARIONETTES: ESSAYS ABOUT MOTHERHOOD, and the numerous threads that connect it to Sarah Manguso's memoir ONGOINGNESS: THE END OF A DIARY. We talk about Gruber's movement from poetry to prose, about the expansiveness of Manguso's memoir, the lack of expansiveness in motherhood in general, how both books talk about the postpartum haze, how parenthood does wild things with the concept of linear time, the surrealness of Gruber's pandemic pregnancy, the gift of knowing you want children, what kinds of experiences need to be lived before than can be imagined, and so much more. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did. Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use one's body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child. Each piece peers into the seemingly mundane to show us the mortal and emotional consequences of maternal bonds, placing experiences of “being a mom” within broader contexts—historical, literary, biological, and psychological—to speak to the ugly realities of parenthood often omitted from mainstream conversations.Ultimately, these deeply moving, graceful essays force us to consider how close we are to death, even in the most average of moments, and how beauty is a necessary celebration amidst the chaos of being alive.ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the 2015 Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron poetry contest, SubTerrain's 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in Event's 2020 creative non-fiction contest, and was the runner up in SubTerrain's 2023 creative non-fiction contest. Both her poetry and non-fiction has been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012, Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples. Get full access to Pickle Me This at kerryreads.substack.com/subscribe

Today's poem is Short Essay on Love by Sarah Manguso. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes on love. This episode was originally released on February 6, 2023.In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem understands to the core that love requires, even anticipates failure. But maybe, even too, that a commitment to finding happiness and joy with someone requires failing and doing it again.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

This Motherwhelm Bite is more like a Motherwhelm Meal. Lisa Quinny from @walk.with.lisa and Lauren Beatty from @tendpsychology planned to host an Instagram Live to discuss the big, important topic of loneliness in motherhood. I was so excited to tune in and simply listen, but when technical difficulties proved to be an obstacle, I jumped at the opportunity to use this podcast as a platform for the discussion.  In this episode, we talk about how loneliness can catch you off guard, how it can present in different contexts, and importantly, how it can be addressed. This was such a beautiful conversation, and I am so grateful to have been a part of it. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did!  Texts mentioned in the episode: 'The Republic of Motherhood' by Liz Berry 'I'll Show Myself Out' by Jessi Klein 'The Grand Shattering' by Sarah Manguso 'Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood' by Lucy Jones Perinatal Mental Health Resources: @walk.with.lisa walkwithlisa.com.au @tendpsychology tendpsychology.com.au @gidgetfoundation https://www.gidgetfoundation.org.au/ @pandanational https://panda.org.au/ @lifelineaustralia Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 https://www.lifeline.org.au/ Find out more about Maternal Journal here: @maternaljrnl https://www.maternaljournal.org/

It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does documenting our lives impact how we live and remember them?  In this episode, diarist and author Sarah Manguso reflects on the benefits and limitations of keeping track of time, and Charan Ranganath, a professor of psychology and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, discusses what research reveals about how memories work and how we can better keep time. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com.  Music by Rob Smierciak (“Slow Money, Guitar Time, Ambient Time”), Corinne Sperens (“Dichotomy”), Felix Johansson Carne (“Headless”), Martin Gauffin (“The Time”), and Dylan Sittss (“On the Fritz”).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is Short Essay on Love by Sarah Manguso.

An episode that covers so much—the power of writing what's essential; an exploration of two kinds of abysses: total noise and total silence; and a forthcoming recounting of what it's like to be on the receiving end of problematic reviews. Guest Sarah Manguso has been called a virtuoso, and her takes on the literary world and writing in her compelling, spare style remind us why we love a meaty interview. Brooke and Grant revel in Sarah's responses and candor this week—and know listeners will too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso is an essayist, memoirist, and now a novelist. She's written eight books, including 300 Arguments and Ongoingness (links to interviews regarding those books can be found in our archives). Very Cold People is her debut novel. It's an Amazon Editors' Pick, a National Indie Bestseller, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and was named a best book of the year by numerous publications. Manguso joins Marrie Stone to talk about her decision to write a novel. She discusses setting a book in her childhood town and creating a sense of place and atmosphere. She talks about writing violence as background instead of foreground, as well as writing about shame, class, mothering, and writing about large concepts in intimate and specific ways. Manguso comes to the podcast from the Miami Book Fair. For more information, visit their website here. For more information on Writers on Writing and additional writing tips, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. (Recorded in October 2022)  Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Co-Host: Marrie Stone Music and sound design: Travis Barrett

In this free-flowing discussion, Antoine and Sarah explore the transition from writing non-fiction to fiction, mull the motivation of likeability in their approach to their work and examine whether poets smoke more weed than fiction writers. 

Even stories that start with "Once Upon a Time" are playing with time in bold ways. Try some new ways to shake up time this week.Book recommendation: VERY COLD PEOPLE, by Sarah Manguso.

The truth disappears when we summarize and paraphrase. In the third episode, Michael Coyle and Alan Swensen turn to wisdom literature written by two transatlantic women whose lives span three centuries, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) and Sarah Manguso (b. 1974). Key themes include historical understandings of social castes and gender, feminism, tensions between nature and artistic creation, and the philosophical relationship between the fragment and the whole.

It's the end of our ‘Inheritance' capsule of episodes! MENTIONED: Marie-Helene Bertino shares her summer reading plans (hint: they involve Ursula K. Le Guin) Jordan and Drew answer some more listener questions, and Jordan describes the horror of hearing her own voice over and over again updates about cool Thresholds alums like Ryka Aoki, Ed Yong, Fernanda Melchor, Sarah Manguso, and Fariha Roisin a flashback to Jordan's conversation with Ocean Vuong We'll be back with our next capsule starting in July! For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso--award-winning author and one of the most acclaimed and genre-defying prose stylists working today—joined us virtually for the launch of her debut novel. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel. Manguso and author Elizabeth McCracken discussed the crafting (and misnaming) of fragments, turning to fiction from poetry, and the particular frigid weirdness of New England in the late 20th century. (Recorded February 16, 2022) 

We're incredibly grateful to all who've listened and contributed to our “little podcast that could,” which began in September 2020 and now has listeners on every continent! Before we take a short summer break, we put together a highlight reel with a few favorite moments. See you in August for more Shadow // Yaddo! Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, Sly and The Family Stone, Lauren Groff, Sheila Heti, Sarah Manguso, John Sims, Lynn Freed, Marianne Boruch, Doug Wright, James Lapine, Patricia Towers and David Sedaris.

Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Very Cold People by Sarah MangusoEnd of the World House by Adrienne CeltA Very Nice Girl by Imogen CrimpThe Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renee ThomasJoan is Okay by Weike WangOther mentions:  A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra CisnerosThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hating Game by Sally ThorneThe Hating Game (film)Normal People by Sally RooneyConversations with Friends (tv adaptation)Bridgerton (Netflix)Leave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth JaquetteThe Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn JohnsonDirty Computer (album)Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]Chemistry by Weike WangEither/Or by Elif BatumanThe Idiot by Elif BatumanThe Possessed by Elif BatumanLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read by Miranda RaisonRelated episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira RamirezEpisode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez  Episode 141 - Profound and Tedious Work with Yanira RamirezEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Sarah Manguso is a fiction writer, essayist, and poet, and the author, most recently, of the novel Very Cold People. Her nonfiction books are 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, and her other books include the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise and the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape. Her work has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing at Antioch University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her work is regularly featured across The New York Times Magazine, O, and The New Yorker, among others. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in LA. Very Cold People is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A distinguished writer of books in various forms — poetry, essay, memoir — Sarah Manguso embarks on her first novel with “Very Cold People,” a striking work about what it means to be human. She discusses how she came to be the person and writer she seems to be now, and why it was necessary to write fiction to make the kind of book about Massachusetts she wanted to make. This deeply moving novel portrays being overwhelmed by the small moments of life, and documents the experience of being a criticized child.

Sarah Manguso talks to Jordan about thinking she'd never write a novel, processing the place you come from, and the cold silence of whiteness. Mentioned: * the four-minute mile * Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Wallace Stevens * Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth * "A Boston Toast" by John Collins Bossidy Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently the novel Very Cold People. Her nonfiction books are 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, and her poetry collections are Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing at Antioch University. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole and Gayle discuss whether they achieved 2021 reading goals and talk about 2022 objectives for their reading routine. After giving us an update on what books they've finished, both present 7 books they want to read this year. As always you can find below the whole booklist they run through during the episode: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton | https://amzn.to/3EHyQpI (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593319857 (Bookshop) We Are Not Like Them by Jo Piazza and Christine Pride | https://amzn.to/3lG7AQa (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781982181031 (Bookshop) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw | https://amzn.to/3fFBzFx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781949199734 (Bookshop) Fault Lines by Emily Itami | https://amzn.to/3AmsgCW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063099807 (Bookshop) Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner | https://amzn.to/3jI7Hd5 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780525657743 (Bookshop) Klara in the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | https://amzn.to/33tNGmF (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593318171 (Bookshop) Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu | https://amzn.to/3kkXvbP (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781951142735 (Bookshop) Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein | https://amzn.to/3fEneJo (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780374602703 (Bookshop) Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh | https://amzn.to/3fF9G08 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780061763304 (Bookshop) Honor by Thrity Umrigar | https://amzn.to/3fNbTqg (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781616209957 (Bookshop) Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins | https://amzn.to/3GTmCve (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274250 (Bookshop) The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman | https://amzn.to/3FSU5oA (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780735217959 (Bookshop) Booth by Karen Joy Fowler | https://amzn.to/32jLX2u (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593331439 (Bookshop) Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky | https://amzn.to/3qKCLxx (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062984463 (Bookshop) Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi | https://amzn.to/3FQgfYz (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780062947369 (Bookshop) The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka | https://amzn.to/3fHZd45 (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593321331 (Bookshop) The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | https://amzn.to/3tKFuZR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593296998 (Bookshop) Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso | https://amzn.to/3Ie0tIu (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780593241226 (Bookshop) The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont | https://amzn.to/3fL5n3C (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9781250274618 (Bookshop) Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan | https://amzn.to/3fEcieR (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780802159274 (Bookshop) Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka | https://amzn.to/3fMQddW (Amazon) | https://bookshop.org/a/2143/9780063052734 (Bookshop)  

When artists get together, conversation flows! Antics, disco, cocktails and more in this week's celebration of our upcoming Yaddo Artist Reunion. Three fantastic writers who met at Yaddo discuss how peers influence each other: Lauren Groff, the bestselling author of six books of fiction, including Fates and Furies, Florida and her latest, Matrix; the ever-brilliant Sheila Heti, author of the novels Motherhood, How Should a Person Be and her forthcoming book, Pure Colour; and Sarah Manguso, the luminous author of eight books, including her upcoming novel, Very Cold People. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, Destiny's Child (“Independent Women,” the Charles J Remix). Special thanks to Glenfiddich for sponsoring our Yaddo Artist Reunion.

Sarah Haas engages writer and mentor Sarah Manguso in a discussion about the need to write, concision and omission in regards to social justice, and Manguso’s forthcoming book Very Cold People. This episode was produced and mastered by Amy Mills Klipstine with graphic design by Lisa Croce.

This week, we discuss Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté. Mood board: I have three screens. I have enough screen space. I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit. This direct shit. Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan. I think about this every day “Work is punishment.” We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things. It’s ready to be PowerPointed. Members Only Security Discussion. Hackin’ the mainframe. They love themselves the McGlauglin group. Back on the Funnel. “Work is Punishment.” Label maker go brrrr. Rundown Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects (https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-google-wants-new-rules-for-developers-working-on-critical-projects/) No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent parties Authenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA) There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the software Enabling transparency for software artifacts Create ways to trust the build process Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies (https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610) Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-hacks-over-35-tech-firms-in-novel-supply-chain-attack/) Steve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsoft (https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/authors-note) a16z pushing product - “DIRECT” The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreessen) Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the future (https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-on-clubhouse-2021-2) CartaX - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/02/04/cartax/) Security SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack (https://www.crn.com/news/security/solarwinds-ceo-confirms-office-365-email-compromise-played-role-in-broad-based-attack) Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/cyberpunk-2007-developer-hit-with-ransomware-attack/) Apple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation Bug (https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/apple-patches-10-year-old-macos-sudo.html) Monitoring and Observability (https://twitter.com/rickdonohue/status/1357738745634541569?s=21) Announcing Change Intelligence (https://lightstep.com/blog/announcing-lightsteps-change-intelligence/) Anchor it around what’s changed. Go Serverless! (https://bweagle.medium.com/go-serverless-a5c2180408ef) Bitcoin HODL Chart (https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1357510579188084736?s=21) Migrate Everything to OpenBSD…? (https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-from-linux-to-bsd.html) Relevant to your interests SoftBank SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsCjokUGi0) SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee early (https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/2020/earnings-presentation_q3fy2020_01_en.pdf) M&A, VC and Partners Palantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largest (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-surges-on-partnership-with-ibm-131247025.html) Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation (https://www.axios.com/reddit-raises-250-million-at-6-billion-valuation-c2f8746d-21d9-49e8-a28e-edd69e296e66.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs) Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity (https://konghq.com/blog/announcing-100m-series-d-funding-to-accelerate-cloud-connectivity/) Box acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflows (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/03/box-acquires-esignature-startup-signrequest-for-new-content-workflows/) It’s AWS not A.W.S. How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/andy-jassy-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos.html?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Amazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlands (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/amazon-to-buy-50percent-of-energy-created-by-shell-wind-farm-in-netherlands.html) diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards (https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards) Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/apple-and-hyundai-kia-driving-towards-deal-on-apple-car.html) Facebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/snap-unity-warn-of-impact-from-apple-ios-14-idfa-privacy-changes.html) Tickets to Space (https://thehustle.co/02052021-tickets-to-space/) They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html) Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/clubhouse-is-now-blocked-in-china-after-a-brief-uncensored-period) Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-iphone-12-mini-hasnt-sold-well-according-to-multiple-estimates/). (https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/2020/earnings-presentation_q3fy2020_01_en.pdf) Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F. (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Salesforce-to-allow-permanent-remote-work-for-15937086.php) Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? (https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed) Greater fool theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory) Nonsense Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the loose (https://www.insider.com/killer-doll-chucky-is-subject-of-texas-amber-alert-message-2021-2) MIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emails (https://www.axios.com/mit-spinach-emails-pollution-04e21941-f692-477d-a5b4-894dabb4e894.html) Mass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On Video (https://insideevs.com/news/486637/mass-over-air-update-tesla-cars-video/amp/) Naming (https://twitter.com/nathangloverAUS/status/1359178660364750851?s=20) Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-building-product-clubhouse.html) Suspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down (https://twitter.com/jackfitzdc/status/1359591651396767749?) “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” (https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1359207169091108864?s=21) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox's distinctive surrealism, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox's empathetic depictions of the ego's need to assert its precious, singular "I" suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. With clear-eyed spirit, Crushing It swallows all the world, and then some. Knox is in conversation with American writer and poet Sarah Manguso. ________________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

COLLEGE PARK–HARLEM — Jordan Castro is the editor of New York Tyrant Magazine and PETS: An Anthology, recently out from Tyrant Books https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Writers included are Patty Yumi Cottrell, Tao Lin, Ann Beattie, Sarah Manguso, Scott McClanahan, Kathryn Scanlan, Nicolette Polek, Chelsea Hodson, Blake Butler, Precious Okoyomon, Mark Leidner, Sam Pink, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, David Nutt, Reagan Bird, Michael W. Clune, Christine Schutt and Mallory Whitten. I recommend it for anyone who has or had or wants pets. Cop PETS now !! – https://store.nytyrant.com/products/pets http://1storyhaus.com

Sarah Manguso speaks with Lumina Journal about her books, 300 Arguments and Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of 300 Arguments (2017), a work of aphoristic autobiography. Her other nonfiction books include Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015), an essay on self-documentation, motherhood, and time; The Guardians (2012), an essay on friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), an essay on living with chronic illness. Her work has been supported by Hodder and Guggenheim fellowships and the Rome Prize, and her books have been translated into six languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

The final episode of Season 2. The incomparable Charlotte Rampling reenacts Simone de Beauvoir’s classic 1965 Paris Review interview; Danez Smith reads their poem “my bitch!”; Sarah Manguso shares her lyric essay “Oceans,” about moving to California, cancer, and writing oceanically; actor Griffin Dunne reads Henry Green’s story “Arcady; or a Night Out.”; and we close with a recording of the late WS Merwin reading his poem “Night Singing.”

Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. After a local girl drowns, the narrator tries to piece together what happened and struggles to find mooring in the aftermath. In formally daring prose, Steinberg captures the violence of desire and its reverberations. The restless rhythm of the novel propels a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel--relentless and bold--that only Susan Steinberg could have written.  Steinberg is in conversation with Sarah Manguso, the author of seven books including Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay.

In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. Among his many clients were Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, André Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall.  The Flight Portfolio opens at the Chagalls' ancient stone house in Gordes, France, as the novel's hero desperately tries to persuade them of the barbarism and tragedy descending on Europe. Masterfully crafted, exquisitely written, impossible to put down, this is historical fiction of the very first order, and resounding confirmation of Julie Orringer's gifts as a novelist. Orringer is in conversation with Sarah Manguso, the author, most recently, of 300 Arguments (2017), a work of aphoristic autobiography.

42 Minutes 329: Sarah Manguso - 300 Arguments - 03.05.2019 Today for 42 minutes, the program considers life writing with author, Sarah Manguso. Her most recent book, 300 arguments was published by Graywolf in 2017. Sarah appears at Treefort Saturday, March 23rd from 2 to 3 pm at The Owyhee and on Sunday, March 24th from noon to 2 at The Owyhee first floor cafe space. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, The Cabin, Mary Oliver, Patter, Poets, Prose, Boston, 17th C.,Outsider, America In A Nutshell, DFW, Infinite Jest, Obligation, Sync Blog, Credible Narrative, Destiny, Bookclub, Time, Literary Philosophy, Grief, Suffering, Plato, World Center For Birds of Prey, Graywolf. http://www.sarahmanguso.com

Topics: Treefort, Storyfort, The Cabin, Mary Oliver, Patter, Poets, Prose, Boston, 17th C.,Outsider, America In A Nutshell, DFW, Infinite Jest, Obligation, Sync Blog, Credible Narrative, Destiny, Bookclub, Time, Literary Philosophy, Grief, Suffering, Plato, ...

Topics: Treefort, Storyfort, The Cabin, Mary Oliver, Patter, Poets, Prose, Boston, 17th C.,Outsider, America In A Nutshell, DFW, Infinite Jest, Obligation, Sync Blog, Credible Narrative, Destiny, Bookclub, Time, Literary Philosophy, Grief, Suffering, Plato, ...

Rachel Zucker talks with Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso about literary friendship, Sarah’s two recent books, Sheila’s manuscript in progress, maternal ambivalence, uncertainty, sacrifice of self, envy, curiosity, being a daughter, attachment and unattachment, shame, the sickening state of wondering whether or not to have children, abandonment, money, the things we cannot choose, choosing intolerable feelings, whiteness, class, the poetics of motherhood, purity, polluted writing, and motherhood as a sexuality category.

This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso. The book is composed of 300 platitudes, most of them about a sentence or two long. While they seem completely unrelated at first, a storyline soon emerges about Manguso's own life, illness, friendships, etc. "Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages." Then, inspired by 300 Arguments, we discuss our favorite short books, including George Orwell's Animal Farm, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, and The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon. And as always, we close the show with recommendations: Foster, Mashable's managing editor who joined the show this week, recommends the The Rolling Stone article "'Silver Springs': Inside Fleetwood Mac's Great Lost Breakup Anthem." "It's such a powerful song and when you find out the story behind it, it one of these things that so deeply increases your enjoyment of what's already such an incredibly great thing." MJ recommends Wesley Morris' New York Times article "In Movies and TV, Racism Made Plain" which explores how white supremacy surfaces, not just during the Charlottesville protests, but also in the pop culture we consume every day. "Whenever Wesley Morris writes anything you should just read it. He also recommends Bustle's article "How YA Twitter Is Trying To Dismantle White Supremacy, One Book At A Time" and Karl Ove Knausgaard's letter to his unborn baby about "What makes life worth living." "In [the letter], he is just so in awe with world ... and reading something where someone is just so in love with being on Earth was really uplifting." 

300 Arguments (Graywolf Press) A “Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis” (Kirkus Reviews), Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today. To read her work is to witness acrobatic acts ofcompression in the service of extraordinary psychological and spiritual insight. 300 Arguments, a foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing, is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms. But, as in the work of David Markson, the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. Manguso’s arguments about desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and wise piece of literature. Praise for 300 Arguments “A writer's life, solitary and complex, broken apart—not into shards but puzzle pieces. . . . A slim, poetic self-portrait that opens up as you read it and stays in the mind.”—Kirkus Reviews “300 Arguments shook me. It’s dark, but the darkness comes from a refusal to look away. Its humor is wounded but present. Is it possibly a sort of novel? The writer says somewhere, ‘This book is the good sentences from the novel I didn’t write.’ The idea holds up when applied, and the attentive reader will intuit an encompassing narrative. Sarah Manguso deserves many such readers.”—JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN “A new book by Sarah Manguso is always a cause for celebration. She is a poet-philosopher of the highest order who combines a laser-sharp intellect with a lyric gift and a capacious, generous heart. She is one of my favorite writers, and with 300 Arguments she deepens her inquiry into the very essence of what it is to be human.”—DANI SHAPIRO Sarah Manguso is the author of three book-length essays, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay; a story collection; and two poetry collections. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at St. Mary’s College. Ethan Nosowsky is Editorial Director at Graywolf Press. He began his career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has also been Editorial Director at McSweeney’s. He has edited books by Jeffery Renard Allen, Hilton Als, Kevin Barry, David Byrne, Vikram Chandra, Geoff Dyer, Dave Eggers, Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Jenny Offill among many others. He lives in Oakland, California.

Only a fire can prove what survives a fire. Well, no, says Sarah Manguso. It only proves what would survive that fire. Manguso, an essayist and poet, offers modern wisdom and witticisms in her new book 300 Arguments.  Plus, Donald Trump gets the Ken Burns treatment.    Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning novelist Valeria Luiselli joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her new book, Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, about the flood of children refugees coming to the United States on a harrowing journey through Mexico from Central America. Luiselli reminds us that Trump may exacerbate the problem, but its been a tragic reality for years. Also, Sarah Manguso returns to recommend Amy Fusselman's underappreciated "8: All True: Unbelievable."

Essayist Sarah Manguso joins Kate and Medaya to read from and talk about her new book 300 Arguments, which is a searing set of aphorisms (though Sarah shies away from that word) that prove the power of concision. Also, Vanessa Davis, author of Spaniel Rage, returns to recommend Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons.

This week I spoke with Payton Cosell Turner and Eliza Wexelman, the rad women behind Girls At Library, the gorgeous and smart online journal dedicated to women who love literature. We debated the merits of print versus e-book, running a bicoastal business, and the importance of constantly re-educating yourself. "I feel like there are people similar to us who are interested in reading but also interested in visuals and creativity and I think just trying to create a place for other women or other readers who wanted to have a resource. It's all the things we wanted in a website." Check out GAL here: http://www.girlsatlibrary.com/ Payton's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pcosellturner Eliza's Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizawexelman Some of the things we talked about: Into the Gloss: https://intothegloss.com/ Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/ My favorite GAL interviews: Audrey Gelman: http://www.girlsatlibrary.com/interviews/audrey-gelman Wesley Pfleeger: http://www.girlsatlibrary.com/interviews/wesley-pfleeger Jeannette Lee: http://www.girlsatlibrary.com/interviews/jeannette-lee Books we talked about: Red Parts, Maggie Nelson: http://amzn.to/2mEiplx Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso: http://amzn.to/2l68M37 1919, John Dos Passos: http://amzn.to/2mxxJkO Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray : http://amzn.to/2l6n2sr Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter: http://amzn.to/2mEgaPq A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihar: http://amzn.to/2mnFKMz *** Want to learn how to podcast? Know nothing? Live in D.C? Sign up for my podcasting 101 course with Lemon Bowl DC on March 16: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podcasting-101-the-lemon-bowl-tickets-32374692577 *** Subscribe to my newsletter #aznbooks2017 and follow along as I read *only* books by Asian authors during 2017! https://tinyletter.com/aznbooks2017 *** Support The Ladycast on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theladycast Follow The Ladycast online: 
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Sarah Manguso is the author of seven books including 300 Arguments, a genre-defying work of nonfiction; Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship and suicide; The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease, and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, a collection of very short stories. She is also the author of the poetry collections Siste Viatorand The Captain Lands in Paradise, poems from which have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in several editions of the Best American Poetry series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft interview with Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments.

�Sarah Manguso is the guest. Her new book, 300 Arguments, is available now from Graywolf Press. In today's monologue, I basically just get right to the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 8 of the Reimagining podcast, Brian Niece considers how we view endings and our fascination with eternity, the separation of the body and soul, and resurrection. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes now. Want to continue the discussion? Tweet your thoughts using #reimagining to @brianmniece. Follow our Facebook Page. Or email us questions and thoughts to Podcast@brianniece.com. Find Brian at www.brianniece.com. This podcast is supported entirely by our listeners. Find out how to be a major part of what we're doing at our Patreon page. Resources mentioned in this episode and previous episode: "How We Say Goodbye" on societyforpsychotherapy.org. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso. Credits: Interludes music - "Stop and Go" by SK; used by permission. Design - Stephanie Jeck. Photography - Ronda Dickey.

In "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary" Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. She says she wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened. But she was terrified that she might forget something, she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 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.

Like most of our favorite authors to interview, Sarah Manguso is a writer’s writer. Linda and Danielle were texting each other during the interview as true blue fans: “She's the REAL DEAL!” May her insights on this practice we all love inspire you too! A few bio deets: Sarah is the author, most recently, of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Her five other books include The Guardians, named one of the top ten books of the year by Salon, and The Two Kinds of Decay, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Telegraph, and Time Out Chicago. Her essays and poems have been widely published and she's taught writing at several prestigious schools, including Columbia, NYU, and Princeton. For access to insider publishing knowledge, monthly coaching calls, and so much more, join us in our thriving writing community: www.thebeautifulwritersgroup.com. For more great author interviews, follow the Beautiful Writers Podcast on Soundcloud!

I'm hesitant to expose myself the way I did in this episode, but what are you gonna do? Apparently when you're me, what you do is embarrass yourself. Why the hell not. Today, from a balcony in Beverly Hills, I perform some raps and songs I wrote in 2nd grade. And then I launch into the real meat of this episode. Siste Viator, a book of poems by Sarah Manguso was recommended to me by a well read listener, and I immediately fell in love with it. I'm positive you will as well. I also read you the Dave Eggers blurb from the back cover explaining why this is the perfect book of poems for those of us not so inclined to read poetry. I know that describes a few of you out there. I'm just sorry you have to hear me singing about my early-onset-jealously towards people with blue eyes first. Please stay, Robyn

In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for 25 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 miss something important. When Manguso became pregnant and had a child, these Copernican […] The post Sarah Manguso : Ongoingness appeared first on Tin House.

Ongoingness: The End of A Diary (Graywolf Press)  In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso 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 800,000 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 amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us. Praise for Ongoingness: “The memoir form is shaken up and reinvented in this brilliant meditation on time and record-keeping. Ongoingness is a short book but there's nothing small about it. Sarah Manguso covers vast territory with immense subtlety and enviable wit.”—Jenny Offill “It seemed scarcely possible that, after The Two Kinds of Decay and The Guardians, Sarah Manguso's work could get more urgent, but somehow it has. Ongoingness confronts the deepest processes and myths of life and death: birth, marriage, illness, mourning, motherhood, art. Underwriting this book, as is true of all of Manguso's books, is writing itself. Or, rather, the writing is about itself in the best, most vital sense. Our author/narrator/speaker/heroine is never not asking the most fundamental question, namely, Why live? The seriousness of the inquiry gives this book extraordinary purpose, momentum, and value. I am in awe.”—David Shields “After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time—about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.”—Miranda July Sarah Manguso is the author of two memoirs, The Guardians and The Two Kinds of Decay, two poetry collections, and a short story collection. Her essays have appeared in Harper's, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and theNew York Times Magazine. Born and raised near Boston, she was educated at Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles.

Sarah Manguso's The Guardians is a powerful story about coming to terms with the death of a close friend, and an attempt to understand how her friend's condition had deteriorated so poorly in his final days.

Sarah Manguso is today's guest.  She's the author of the new book The Guardians: An Elegy, now available from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Megan O'Grady, writing for Vogue, says: Shortly after returning home from a fellowship year in Rome, poet ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal. Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the 1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we know today. The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman explain how they have all been deeply affected by this beautiful piece of music.