Review:
Praise for The Writing Class: Willet's delicious satire savages every literary pretension imaginable.--The Miami Herald. A marvelous toy of a book, full of wry surprises and sly twists...extremely clever and quite enjoyable. --Booklist. Praise for Winner of the National Book Award. The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. --Augusten Burroughs. Riotous [and] hugely funny. --The New York Times. The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . . --Entertainment Weekly. Poignant and funny, mean and tender, Willett's novel is exuberantly original.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) An elegy wrapped inside a satire, a sorrowful meditation on the mysteries of sibling love and rivalry concealed within a bitterly funny chronicle of literary buffoonery. Jincy Willett is a fearless writer, capable of startling the reader into rueful laughter at every turn.--Tom Perrotta. Praise for Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Exquisite...A great, darkly comic collection.--Esquire. The funniest collection of stories I've ever read--really funny and perfectly sad at the same time.David Sedaris --Various
About the Author:
JINCY WILLETTis the author of Jenny and the Jaws of Life, Winner of the National Book Award, and The Writing Class, which have been translated and sold internationally. Her stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, McSweeney's Quarterly, and other magazines. She frequently reviews for The New York Times. Book Review. Willett spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing--sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately.
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