42. Sarah Manguso in Conversation

This event will have ASL interpretation.

Sarah Manguso’s work—in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—has been recognized with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her ten acclaimed books include her most recent novel Liars, a searing divorce drama that was named one of the best novels of the past 20 years (Los Angeles Times); The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease; the collections Sister Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise, poems from which have won a Pushcart Prize; and Questions Without Answers, a delightful work of philosophy written in collaboration with hundreds of children and illustrated by Liana Finck. The celebrated author joins Aislinn Hunter on stage to discuss her multifarious body of work, and the topics that are driving her curiosity these days.

Sarah Manguso’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of an anonymous patron.

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Aislinn Hunter

AISLINN HUNTER is an award-winning novelist and poet living on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her most recent books are The Certainties (a novel, Knopf) and Linger, Still (poetry, 8Gaspereau Press). She was the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis).

Sarah Manguso

SARAH MANGUSO is the author of nine books, most recently the novels Liars and Very Cold People. Her work has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.