Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is an American author of memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction known for her spare, luminous prose and her unflinching exploration of time, illness, memory, and creative life. Her major works include The Two Kinds of Decay (about her experience with a rare autoimmune disease), Ongoingness (a meditation on her twenty-five-year diary), and 300 Arguments (a collection of aphorisms). Manguso's writing is celebrated for its precision, emotional honesty, and philosophical depth. Her books and audiobooks reward listeners with profound, beautifully distilled observations about what it means to live attentively in a world that constantly threatens to overwhelm us.