Poet, memoirist, and fiction writer Sarah Manguso will be speaking at our downtown Gainesville library on this Monday, November 16th at 6:30pm.
Her most recent book is Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of "illness and healing." Now, this sort of accounting can go either way for me, especially since the word "healing" gets used in so many creepy, creepy ways. Some of these memoirs annoy the crap out of me, and I end up muttering things at the pages such as "oh, poor you, your body has changed - deal with it" or "stop whining and go live your life and have some fun." But other times the author's recounting of her life makes me, in both meanings of the word, tender.
Come Monday to the Downtown Library, and we'll see which way it goes.
So I'm curious...which way did it end up going? A friend had told me about her and I planned on going, but I was stuck at home w/ the H1N1 flu instead. Now I'm eager to know how it went!
Posted by: Jeremy | November 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Jeremy, So sorry you were (are?) ill. It was a lovely evening and sent me home with a strategy to get out of this whirlypool stuck place in my own writing. I wish she'd had another hour just to say more about "the sentence." I love our library.
Posted by: Sandra Gail Lambert | November 18, 2009 at 06:31 AM