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Ongoingness Christopher Hitchens physical vulnerability and emotional loss[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed. The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she 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.