Ongoingness Christopher Hitchens Miss Hortense once used her

Miss Hortense once used her skills to benefit the Pardner network--a local group of Black investors that she helped found

and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action

physical vulnerability and emotional loss taking place in her senior years

but we're not over it

Ongoingness Christopher Hitchens Miss Hortense once used her[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.