Sarah Manguso on the Coldest Silences

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

“There was this free floating belief that the whiter you were, the colder you were, the scarcer things were, the more of them you had, the less of them everybody else had, and the less you talked about any of it.”

Sarah Manguso is the author of eight books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently the novel Very Cold People. Her nonfiction books are 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, and her poetry collections are Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She was born and raised in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing at Antioch University.

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