The writing class by jincy willett6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Though some of Willett's observations are predictable, the best of these stories still seem ahead of their time. I can't sleep, and I'm not so much depressed as humiliated, both by slapstick catastrophe and by the minute tragedy of my wasted talents," laments Willett's funniest subject, an advice columnist who has an existential crisis in epistolary form. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. My younger daughter just gave all of her trust money to the Church of the Famous Maker. The Writing Class: A Novel is written by Jincy Willett and published by Thomas Dunne Books. My husband's mistress has myasthenia gravis. Willett is alive to the absurd in American culture and the tragicomic struggle for dignity that we often lose. ![]() Lazenbee," a sixth grader manipulates her school's new campaign to teach children about "touches that feel good" and "touches that feel funny" by pointing fingers at an easy neighborhood target. She says the rapist "measurably improved the quality of my life," because she no longer lives in fear of the unknown. He cheated on his wife once, but notes that he "cried once on someone else's account" while watching a televised unfolding of American POWs returning to Washington and asks God to consider granting immortality in return for nothing, just as "a fresh approach." "Under the Bed" is narrated by a woman who was beaten and raped in her own home. In "Résumé," a run-of-the-mill man gives God a quick rundown of his life. ![]() Willett is a marvelous philosopher and humanist, even when writing about subjects that beg for a knee-jerk reaction. First published in 1987, this debut collection of morbidly funny stories has been given a well-deserved second life. ![]()
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