Louise A. DeSalvo is an American writer whose work often engages with Italian-American culture and is also a renowned scholar of Virginia Woolf. Her writing delves into the complexities of family, memory, and identity, frequently emphasizing the healing power of storytelling. DeSalvo explores themes of trauma and resilience, with her literary analysis of Woolf revealing profound insights into the iconic author's life and work. Through her varied writings, she offers readers a pathway to connect with their own narratives and understand their transformative potential.
A stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.
The revealing exchange of correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Wolf from 1922-41.