"2000 - 2099" . . . . "Authors, American." . . "Time Psychological aspects." . . "Authors, American 21st century Biography." . . "Autobiographical memory." . . "Diaries Authorship." . . "Diaries." . . . "Biography"@en . . . . "The author traces the documentation of her own life in diaries over twenty-five years, exploring the struggle to find clarity in life."@en . "Electronic books"@en . . "\"In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso 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 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us\"--Publisher's website."@en . . . . "Ongoingness : the end of a diary"@en . "Essays"@en . . . . . . "Autobiographies"@en .