Sarah Manguso’s fourth book, The Two Kinds of Decay (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is out now. She lives in Rome.

• May 2008: Poison
  All autoimmune diseases invoke the metaphor of suicide. The body destroys itself from the inside.
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  January 2008: Interview with Lydia Davis
  “I don’t believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style.”
• October 2007: Interview with Amy Hempel
  “The goal is always to sound unlike myself.”
• August 2005: Review of Jack Gilbert’s Refusing Heaven
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  June/July 2005: Review of James Richardson’s Interglacial
• April 2005: Review of Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard
• September 2004: Review of D.A. Powell’s Cocktails
• July 2004: Review of Fanny Howe’s Tis of Thee
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  March 2004: Why the Reader of Good Prose Poems is Never Sad
  This is not disorder: Russell Edson writes logically nonsensical, antiprosaic prose.