A clear and fierce writer whose essays get right to the point but somehow still challenge the form, Sarah Manguso kept a journal for 25 years of about 800,000 words. In the journal she ended each day with a recollection of the day's events, until recently, when she had a child and her need to continue the project became a different kind of meditation on time, memory, and mortality — a memoir called Ongoingness: The End of a Diary. Manguso is the author of five other books, including Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir, which was named an editors' choice by The New York Times Book Review and a best book of the year by the Independent, the Telegraph, and Time Out Chicago. Based in Los Angeles, she's in town to speak with Graywolf Press editor Ethan Nosowsky.
Sarah Manguso speaks at 7:30 p.m. at Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. Free; call 742-5833 or visit greenapplebooks.com.
415-742-5833
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