Louise DeSalvo died (31/10/2018)
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All on Fri Nov 1 22:40:37 2024
American writer, editor, professor and lecturer
"Much of her work focused on Italian American culture, though she was
also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar." (Wiki)
Crystal is most interested in:
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling our Stories Transforms our
Lives (1999)
and
The Art of Slow Writing (2014)
I like both ideas.
I've suggested to a couple of friends, older than myself, that they
should write their life story -- memoir or autobiography. That was
enough to teach me that just suggesting the idea is not enough. Writing
is work, and lots of people don't think they're up to it, or don't think
they have the time. Another friend goes around to rest homes, talks up
the idea, and then follows through with practical advice, encouragement
and feedback to those who do take it up. That produces some results.
Being naturally slowly inclined, in both writing and reading, I endorse
slow writing and slow reading. I find it hard to believe people who say
they read several books a week -- though they tend to be people who do
it for a living (reviewers, radio/TV interviewers, etc.). My slow
reading is generally a consequence of being easily distracted; every few
lines I need to look something up or my mind goes wandering off on some tangential track....
Slow writing is apparently advocated (in one form or another) by
Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence, and Stephen King. Stephen King! Well,
maybe his publisher said "Throttle it back a bit, Steve - the presses
are overheating again."
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