Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal
Susan Gubar
Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live ... Read more
From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as “moving and instructive…and incredibly brave,” this volume opens a path to healing.
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Reviews for Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal
happily, in nonacademic language
combines with up-to-date research confirming that writing heals both mind and body. It adds up to a convincing argument that words heal, and you
even if you haven't written a thing since high school
can tap into the power of words."
Philadelphia Inquirer "[Gubar] has spent much of the past decade ... Read more