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FraenkelLAB
June 23 - June 23, 2016Info
- https://fraenkelgallery.com/fraenkellab
- 415.347.8366
Please join us next Thursday 6/23 for our first Random Reading event! KIM BEIL (Stanford; Visual Culture, History of Photography) reads a selection from Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015, Graywolf Press). [Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed. ― The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she 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 eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.