Comments on: Making sense of the surrounding chaos: Sarah Manguso on The Two Kinds of Decay

By: Maud Newton: Blog

Maud Newton: Blog — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:50:16 +0000

...] favorite writers don’t waste time.” The fascinating Sarah Manguso answers [...

By: nathan curnow

nathan curnow — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:05:12 +0000

thanks for this Ange. will keep an eye for the book and more of Sarah’s work. These are great introductions.

By: celluloidtongue

celluloidtongue — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:18:34 +0000

Colour me interested. Great interview, too!

By: simonne

simonne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:17:10 +0000

‘I feel as if I transferred the data to an external storage facility and don’t need to remember as much. I wonder if people felt relieved when their oral cultures became literate cultures, when their history and literature no longer had to depend on human recall.’

This is such an interesting answer to a really good question.