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An excellent and exhilarating series of aphorisms in one of our biggest essayists. There should come a period when people determine you've had enough of your grief, and they'll make an effort to take it from you. Bad artwork is from no one to no-one. Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I'll let you know whether you are. Say thanks to heaven I don't possess my friends' problems. But sometimes I notice a manifestation on one with their faces that I recognize as hidden knowledge gratitude. I read miserable testimonies to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action films to recognize with the quick-witted heroes. Both same fantasy: I'll escape the worst of computer. - from 300 Arguments A "Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis" (Kirkus Reviews), Sarah Manguso is one of the best possible literary artists at work today. To hear her work is to witness acrobatic acts of compression in the service of amazing psychological and religious insight. 300 Arguments, a foray into the frontier of modern-day nonfiction writing, is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms. But, just as the work of David Markson, the bits reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that continuously gathers electricity. Manguso's arguments about desire, ambition, associations, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, plus they add up to an urgent and renegade intelligence literature.
