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 s

�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 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 C

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/ad