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A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayistsThere will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you. Bad art is from no one to no one. Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I'll tell you whether you are. Thank heaven I don't have my friends' problems. But sometimes I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude. I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I'll escape the worst of it. -- from 300 ArgumentsA "Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis" (Kirkus Reviews) , Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today.



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Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso's debut novel, Very Cold People, is forthcoming on 2/8/22. Her nonfiction books include 300 Arguments, a work of aphoristic autobiography; Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease. Her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.



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