A review by ardystvs
Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language by Roxane Gay

3.0

The essay was beautifully written but the last part could've been better. The discussion on the pandemic, Trump, and the collective trauma experienced by America is a very lazy analysis added in order for the narrative to arrive at its conclusion. Also, the title of the essay is deceiving. Gay's work didn't attempt to teach readers how to write about trauma or how to study trauma in literature. Instead, she focused on her experience in teaching students how to explore this difficult subject in their writing. Writing into the Wound almost feels like an advertisement created to encourage its readers to enroll in Gay's future workshops or subscribe to her newsletter, The Audacity.