Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

A study of the process of restorative writing draws on both personal experience and the memoirs of Isabel Allende, Audre Lorde, and others to explain how one can use writing to deal with the conflict and turmoil of one's life

Writing As a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

Reference

DeSalvo, Louise

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Harper-San Francisco

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Feminist Readings)

Literature & Fiction

Humanities Pr

Evoking Bloomsbury and Paris in the 1920s and '30s, an acclaimed biographer illuminates the dark motives behind masterpieces of 20th-century literature--particularly in the works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller. A daring analysis of much never-before-addressed material.

Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives of Woolf, Lawrence, Barnes, Miller

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Plume

In 1958, 16-year-old Louise DeSalvo saw Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo 11 times in one week, transfixed by the lead character's fainting spells (from which she, too, suffered) and by the image of a woman-as-imposter falling to her death. In her own Vertigo, DeSalvo vividly recounts her attempt to transcend the limits of her own working-class girlhood--as well as depression and family violence--to forge an identity based on her own desires.

Vertigo

Community & Culture

Challenging the conceptions of how and why works of literature are written, a literary group study examines the motivations of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller, noting their jealousies, frustrations, and obsessions. Tour.

Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller

History

Dutton

The author recounts her life as a working-class daughter of Italian immigrants, her rebellion against that life, and her eventual metamorphosis from young mother to published author and Professor of English. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Vertigo: A Memoir

Dutton Adult

This collection of never-before-published letters offers a candid, intriguing record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf as it documents their mutual relationship from 1922 to 1941

Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

SACKVILLE-WEST, V.

Leaska, Mitchell Alexander

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

William Morrow & Co.

Casting Off: A Novel

The Harvester Press

"Every creative act is a declaration of war," wrote Henry Miller. This fascinating book examines the motive of revenge as a catalyst for the creative process. Evoking Bloomsbury & Paris in the twenties & thirties, acclaimed biographer Louise DeSalvo focuses on four famous literary partnerships where the written word was used as a weapon of revenge. Contents: Leonard & Virginia Woolf & "The Wise Virgins"; D. H. Lawrence & Ottoline Morrell & "Women in Love"; Djuna Barnes & "The Antiphon"; & Henry Miller & June Miller & "Crazy Cock". It will challenge our conceptions of how & why great works of literature are written.

Conceived With Malice: Literature As Revenge

History & Criticism

Diane Pub Co.

Adultery

Louise DeSalvo risks all, in the company of Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, and Madam Recamier. By filtering the story of her own husband's affair through other's stories, she revels in the always exciting fantasy and tells from the usually painful reality of adultery. The conclusions she draws, and the balance she finds in her marriage and in others, make ADULTERY a fun, poignant, and compassionate book.

Self-Help

Relationships

Beacon Pr

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