2 Books by Jincy Willett
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Overview: Jincy Willett is an author and writing teacher currently living in San Diego, California. She has written short pieces for various anthologies and periodicals including the Winter 2006 issue of Timothy McSweeney’s “Quarterly Concern and Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules”. Her first book, a collection of short stories called “Jenny and the Jaws of Life”, was initially published in 1987 to critical acclaim but smaller-than-expected sales. The public admiration of Willett’s writing expressed by David Sedaris, however, had the book in reprint in 2002, garnering praise from critics and public alike.
Her next book, a novel entitled “Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather” was published in 2002. She co-leads a writers’ workshop and tutors online. Her third book, “The Writing Class, a Novel”, was published in 2008 by St. Martin’s Press and is a witty mystery. The novel “Amy Falls Down” was released by St. Martin’s Press in July 2013.
Genre: Fiction
The Writing Class (2008)
Amy Gallup was a promising writer once–published and highly praised at twenty-two. It was all downhill from there, and now, year in and year out, she teaches a writing workshop at the local university extension. And this semester begins just the same as the others. But then there’s a threatening phone call, followed by obscene threats worked into the student’s peer evaluations. Then a murder–and every one of the students is a suspect. The clues are hidden in their writing, and she (and we) can solve the murder only by looking more closely at each writer’s attempts at fiction. Hilarious, vicious, and elegantly written, The Writing Class examines the desperation, perversion, and mania of the writing life through an unforgettable mystery story.
Amy Falls Down (2013)
Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer’s block, she doesn’t suffer from it. She’s still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she is merely numb and bemused, which is as close to happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm.
So, when on New Year’s morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next.
Amy falls down.
A simple accident, as a result of which something happens, and then something else, and then a number of different things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. At first the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amy’s life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound.
This most reluctant of adventurers is dragged and propelled by train, plane, and automobile through an outlandish series of antic media events on her way to becoming–to her horror–a kind of celebrity. And along the way, as the numbness begins to wear off, she comes up against something she has avoided all her life: her future, that "sleeping monster, not to be poked."
Jincy Willett’s Amy Falls Down explores, through the experience of one character, the role that accident plays in all our lives. "You turn a corner and beasts break into arias, gunfire erupts, waking a hundred families, starting a hundred different conversations. You crack your head open and three thousand miles away a stranger with Asperger’s jump-starts your career."
We are all like Amy. We are all wholly unprepared for what happens next.
Also, there’s a basset hound.
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