Aliza azikri biography books

“What do you do when you can’t write?” Such a question is inevitably asked by an audience member in writing workshops and book talks.

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A collective intake of breath goes through the crowd, heads nod in sympathetic recognition, and everyone leans in to hear how the successful writer has found her words again. For authors, few things are more frustrating—or more common—than a case of writer’s block: that state of verbal paralysis when words simply refuse to flow, or even trickle, onto the page.

Yet there exists a more extreme form of writer’s block, one that makes typical remedies—like going for a walk or reading for a bit—seem laughably frivolous.

Aphasia is a communication disorder that impairs the ability to speak, write, and understand language.

Whether caused by a stroke, a tumor, a traumatic brain injury, or a progressive form of dementia, the mute horror of language loss and its accompanying isolation can be devastating. Yet it’s esse