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    The Writing Class: A Novel
    The Writing Class: A Novel
    The Writing Class: A Novel
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    The Writing Class: A Novel

    By Jincy Willett

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    Amy Gallup is gifted, perhaps too gifted for her own good. Published at only twenty-two, she peaked early and found critical but not commercial success. Now her former life is gone, along with her writing career and beloved husband. A reclusive widow, her sole companion a dour, flatulent basset hound who barely tolerates her, her daily mantra Kill Me Now, she is a loner afraid to be alone. Her only bright spot each week is the writing class that she teaches at the university extension.

    This semester's class is full of the usual suspects: the doctor who wants to be the next Robin Cook, the overly enthusiastic repeat student, the slacker, the unassuming student with the hidden talent, the prankster, the know-it-all…. Amy's seen them all before. But something is very different about this class---and the clues begin with a scary phone call in the middle of the night and obscene threats instead of peer evaluations on student writing assignments. Amy soon realizes that one of her students is a very sick puppy, and when a member of the class is murdered, everyone becomes a suspect. As she dissects each student's writing for clues, Amy must enlist the help of everyone in her class, including the murderer, to find the killer among them.

    Suspenseful, extremely witty, brilliantly written, unexpectedly hilarious, and a joy from start to finish, The Writing Class is a one-of-a-kind novel that rivals Jincy Willett's previous masterpieces.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 26, 2009
    ISBN9781466806238
    The Writing Class: A Novel
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    Jincy Willett

    JINCY WILLETT is 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.

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    • 3/5
      If a member of your night class were murdering classmates, wouldn't you find something better to do those evenings? So would I, but thankfully the members of the writing class in Jincy Willett's "The Writing Class" keep coming back for more.That's just one of the things about the novel that don't quite add up, but I don't think a realistic murder mystery was Willett's objective in her 2008 novel. It is more a satire on writing classes, literary aspirations and even murder mysteries themselves.Amy Gallup is a novelist, or former novelist, whose books are out of print and whose literary career, like her personal life, lies in ruins. To support herself and her dog, she teaches a writing class for adults, most of whom have little or no talent but who pay the fees, so they're in. Just wanting to be a writer is good enough for Amy. That's more ambition than she has anymore.Even early on it is clear some member of her new class has a screw loose. Ominous phone messages, notes, etc., keep appearing as the weeks go on. Then one class member is found dead, then another. The police don't take it seriously. (Since Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, police incompetence has been more rule than exception in murder mysteries.) Since her class refuses to disband (and she needs the money), Amy realizes it is up to her to find the Sniper, as the killer is dubbed."The Writing Class," sometimes interesting and sometimes not, doesn't earn an A, but it is good enough to make you glad you kept coming back for more.
    • 3/5
      Interesting concept of having a real life mystery within a writing class. Unique idea of using writing concepts such as analyzing use of language to catch the culprit.
    • 4/5
      Innocent this writing class may seem but as the plot unfolds dark feelings suddenly creep in and jolt your senses, suspicions are aroused as you dismiss clues for red herrings and are drawn deeper into the characters.
    • 2/5
      "The funniest novel I had read, possibly ever"-Augusten Burroughs.I don't know what this bloke reads that this book doesn't even register on my radar for funny novels. Dull? Yes;Dreary? Yes;Longwinded? Yes;Shallow characters? Yes;Do you have any investment in who the killer is? Not at all.I was giving serious consideration to abandoning this when I was 1/2 way in and a whole lot of not much had really happened, by 3/4 I really wanted to throw it out the window and let the geese chew it up however I felt the need the finish the last 70 pages so I could at least say I tried.Well, I tried. I basically have nothing positive to day about the book beyond it being a unique, albeit poorly executed, concept.
    • 4/5
      Delightfully self-aware! This was a really fun read, but not fluffy or too light. The premise is a community college writing class that becomes the setting/vehicle for a murder mystery. "Amy Gallup was a loner who was afraid to be alone." (12) She is also the teacher and mostly fearless leader for the Fiction class that meets Wednesday nights. We begin at the beginning with the first class and its students - introductions, intentions, etc. - a diverse group of 13 (!) with various reasons for taking the class. Amy is the primary focus and through the narrator we mostly get her story except where it intersects with the students. But the book opens with a malevolent point of view describing Amy from the outside. This same pov intrudes throughout, and begins to target others in the class as they are sharing critiques of their work and soon it turns physical with frightful pranks, email hacking and harassing phone calls (landline, 2009 before cell phones were so prevalent) It must be one of the students, but how to find out which one? The escalation of events leads the university to cancel the class and fire Amy but the devoted group of students continues to meet in homes, even though the threat and danger is evident. Amy, who peaked early in her own career as a writer and has had some personal tragedies that have blocked her creativity since (death of a spouse, divorce) is both freaked out and intrigued by the events unfolding. She really likes all the students, but she is such an introvert, she literally cannot be around them more often than the weekly class. As she tries to reason out who the so-called "Sniper" is, she has to confront some of her own biases and demons too. A sampling of the students: Dot Hieronymous who takes murder mystery cruises and has written a script for one; Tiffany, the pretty air-head looking feminist scholar, Ricky Buzza, reporter, Syl Reyes who is just there to meet chicks, Edna Wentworth, spinster retired schoolteacher, Dr. Richard Surtees, pompous jerk who is writing a novel, Carla, essentially a groupie who has taken numerous classes with Amy and is able to parrot her word for word, and a few others thrown in the mix. Honestly, that was the one downside for me - a few too many to keep track of! Lots of humor here with a great parody of the writer's workshop model, but authentic story-telling and a true mystery whose resolution I did not see coming. I really enjoyed this one!
    • 2/5
      It started out well and I enjoyed the characters, then it began to unravel for me. I'd put it down in hopes it would be "better" when I picked it back up but a little more than halfway through the book I ended up turning it back into the library and picking up something that held my interest. Perhaps I'll try again in the future but for now . . .
    • 4/5
      A fast, fun read; an enjoyable mystery, wrapped in a writing class, inside a meditation on storytelling and the oft-times frustrated storytellers who tell them.

      I read this after being (mostly) stood up for a first "date" with the members of my nascent writing group. I sat in the bookstore and ate carrot cake and plowed through this page-turner and thought to myself, ha ha, now I'm going to add all of you to the list of people I hope to spite with my writing, well, not you, Nathan, at least you managed to make it to the appropriate Starbucks at the previously-agreed-upon date and time; I'll spare you my spite, but don't cross me, Nathan.

      Perhaps reading about murderous writers isn't the best thing for me right now.

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    • 4/5
      This was a wonderful surprise. My sister had given it to me for Christmas-- one of those books I never would have picked up for myself-- and once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. Jincy Willett's portrayal of Amy, the aging, overweight, one-time-author who now teaches writing classes, and her ragtag bunch of students is full of humor and insight. And when a whodunnit is thrown into the mix (one of the members of the class is slowly killing off the other members), so much the better. As an added bonus, Willett knows her stuff about writing, and manages to slip in quite a bit of wisdom about the writing and publishing worlds. A very satisfying read.
    • 4/5
      Amy Gallup is a writer-turned-teacher who runs an evening fiction-writing course. Her current class is turning out to be surprisingly enjoyable for Amy as the students are clever and seem willing to enter into the spirit of critiquing each other’s work. However an undercurrent of hostility creeps in when someone who Amy christens The Sniper starts playing nasty pranks on both the teacher and fellow students.

      I nearly didn’t read this book because when I got it home from the library I discovered that one of the prominently placed pull quotes on the cover was something gushing by David Sedaris. I am, apparently, the only person on the planet who doesn’t find Sedaris’ own writing amusing and assumed that if he liked it I would not. As I had dragged it all the way home I set out, albeit with low expectations, and happily, enjoyed it spite of myself (and Sedaris) and vowed, once again, to wage a campaign to rid the world of publicity blurbs on books because they do more harm than good.

      The characters are terrific. Amy is a loner afraid of being alone, a writer with the misfortune of having had her first book published and has a dozen more quirks. Often I find fictional people with loads of oddities to be unbelievable but I didn’t experience that with Amy. Her foibles and peculiar behaviours were all explained naturally and I not only found her credible but I liked her. A lot. She’s witty, self-deprecating but not depressingly so and clever. Her students fulfil more stereotypical roles but as that is partially their purpose it doesn’t detract from the story and they do manage to surprise on occasion. I was thoroughly enthralled by the depiction of the shifting group dynamics and the development of the characters, much of which is done via their writing and the critique of it. Of course as Amy delivers her mini lectures about what makes good (and bad) writing I was applying that information to what I was reading and, for the most part, found Willett had taken her own character’s advice.

      Structurally the book tries several different things and most of them work. The backbone consists of chapters for each class and these include snippets of each student’s writing which are discussed and dissected. In between there are chapters told from Amy’s point of view, extracts from Amy’s blog and diary entries from The Sniper. This could have been confusing but Willett has done a good job of pulling all these elements together to form a narrative. There is one part, a mystery play that one of the students has written that is acted out by the other students, that I failed to see the point of and found incongruous with the rest of the story but it wasn’t jarring enough to detract too much.

      In pure mystery terms the plot is less successful than the character development and structure. The police show no interest in any of the nastier events that take place which is not terribly credible and the traditional whodunit with an ever decreasing pool of suspects isn’t done all that well. There’s never more than a vague suspicious shadow cast over any one person and when the villain was finally revealed there wasn’t a huge amount tying them back to an intricately woven trail of evidence. However I really didn’t care about this too much as I was enjoying the non-mystery elements of the story and all the rest the book had to offer.

      So I’m not sure this book is really crime fiction although as I seem to be saying that rather a lot lately maybe I just don’t understand the term anymore. Still, I can imagine recommending this to people I know who don’t like reading traditional crime fiction and wouldn’t suggest it for hard core mystery lovers at all. There were aspects of a decent ‘chic-lit’ (I hate that term) title such as Jane Green’s The Beach House but it also reminded me of Ben Elton’s Dead Famous in the way it cleverly deals with archetypes and applies a liberal does of satire to events. Whatever genre it might be I found it a thoroughly entertaining and witty book.

    • 4/5
      The Writing Class is shelved among the mysteries at our public library, and it certainly is a whodunit, but the unraveling of the murders is not that important to the novel as a whole. I enjoyed the dynamics in this group of amateur writers, the exercises Amy assigns to them, the discussions of their work, and the overall admiration of the written word and books. For me, Amy's "return" to the world, and her acknowledgment of the importance of people and of friends, in particular, was much more interesting than the solution of the crimes. Lots of laugh-out-loud moments too.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book - grear descriptions of the characters that attend the class
    • 5/5
      As a wannabe author who has been in a writing class or two I found this book fascinating. It was wonderfully written and the characters were fascinating and reminded me a bit too much of some of the people I've met in writing classes and workshops. I'm not sure I will be able to return to a writing class again after reading this book.I can only hope that my mystery, when I finally finish it, is as well written, engaging, and true to life as this book. Loved it. -KK
    • 2/5
      I had several problems with this book. First, you're introduced to all thirteen characters at once and they're roughly defined by their quirks, not memorable. Without memorable characters, you don't find yourself truly engaged in the mystery as you don't know or care about those involved.Furthermore, at one point in the book a member of the "writing class" complains about mystery authors misleading readers on purpose, the joke here is that this is exactly what Willett does throughout the entire book! Lame ending, lame mystery, lame characters.
    • 4/5
      Reading this book really took me back to my days as an undergrad in creative writing workshops. Although the classes I took were made up of twenty-somethings (or less) and this book focuses on a group of adults, Willett really did a fantastic job of capturing the mix of personalities and the interactions that take place between them in a workshop setting. The characters were really the strongest point of this book, and it was kind of refreshing to read about a group of people that all like each other. In that vein, I really liked it when Amy, the class's teacher, said something to the effect that she couldn't even hold any ill will toward "The Sniper" because of the fondness she felt for the group as a whole. Of course, that was (I think) before a member of the class turned up dead.This didn't seem to me to be a mystery in the sense I normally think of them, because I'm not sure there's really a series of clues the reader can use to figure out who the killer is. You can guess, sure, but there didn't seem to be anything that really said, even subtly, "the killer is definitely _____." And that's not a bad thing because, again, the charm of the book isn't in the mystery. It's in the characters and the wit that comes through in the prose. That's what makes this book fun.
    • 4/5
      I found this a witty, clever novel. The writer herself runs creative writing workshops and she's drawn on that experience to put together an engaging set of characters in her main character's class. It also gives Willett the chance to adopt different 'voices' for the adult students she has. An entertaining, quick read.
    • 5/5
      Jincy Willett's writing is exquisite. She must be having a love affair with the English language because as a reader, I truly get the sense she loves how using words in certain ways can make a standard sentence seem so twisted, funny, heart-breaking or harsh. In "The Writing Class," we meet Amy Gallup, who was once a talented writer and is now teaching a fiction writing seminar at the local community college. The story begins at the start of her latest workshop and immediately we're pulled into the learning process as well as given a glimpse into the mind of a teacher who is over it all. The classes are interesting on their own, but when a student begins to terrorize their classmates, things become even more interesting. Eventually, there is a murder and the students rally together to support their teacher and new friends while at the same time, begin to doubt one-another and begin to suspect the worst in some of their fellow classmates. I'll admit that the murder was of secondary interest to me. I was more engaged by Amy's story and her interactions with her students. The murder added a little extra intensity to the story and gave the plot a dash of mystery (the killer was indeed a surprise!), but it was the way the students responded to it that had me reading more. My only issue with the book was that I felt it did drag a little towards the end, but other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book and ended up really liking some of the characters. Unique, original, funny, many good characters, and small lessons on writing. I really enjoyed the class members' creative writing "excerpts".
    • 4/5
      Amy Gallup teaches an adult writing class as a university extension. It is a fiction workshop and they will meet weekly for 9 weeks. From the start Amy has problems. She doesn't really enjoy starting off with a new group of people, and there are 15 names on her list, and 16 people in the room. Carla, the one person who has attended one of her classes before, is missing on the first night. When Amy gets home on the night of the first class, a heavy breather has left whispered fragments on her answering machine.By the third class it is obvious there is someone in the class who isn't quite what they seem. As the class continues, this person, identity still unknown, selects victims with cruel comments on their manuscripts, and practical jokes. And then one of the class dies.It is obvious that Jincy Willett has brought considerable experience in conducting writing classes to the writing of this book, with keen observations, and realistic scenarios. It reminded me quite a lot of classes I attended a couple of years ago, although Amy was much more demanding of her students than my teacher was.However for me, the book became a little long. I desperately wanted to get on and hunt down The Sniper, the perpetrator of all the nasty deeds, including by the end more than one murder. And from that standpoint the last hundred pages just didn't move fast enough. It felt like Jincy Willett had a lot of material she wanted to include, and we were going to get it whether we liked it or not. I became increasingly annoyed by the fact that I felt there weren't enough hints about who the villain was.Bernadette in Reactions to Reading says " I’m not sure this book is really crime fiction" and I am inclined to agree with her. I think the crime elements take a back seat to the other things that Willett is writing about. But Bernadette obviously enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      A very interesting thing happened when I was reading this book. It hasn’t happened before. Several times throughout, I would think to myself, why am I reading this? It was entertaining enough, but I didn’t think I was really invested enough to continue. I would put it down and walk away for a while. I usually have several books on the go, but when I would sit down and debate what to read next, none of them appealed to me, and I always ended up back at this book. There was such a diverse cast of characters, that by about half way through, I wanted to finish, just to see who done it (although, I’m not sure I WANTED it to be any of them). At the same time, I couldn’t be bothered to read any more, I couldn’t read anything else. Intriguing is the word that comes to mind that is appropriate. Has this every happened to anyone else?I did like the humor, but found it very literary, for a mystery, and sometimes that was distracting. I could relate in some ways to the main character, who wanted to be alone in her house with her books and her dog, but then other things I found so far fetched. Why was she always being talked in to things? Why did she keep coming back? Why did she set herself up for some of the scenarios to happen? The book was set up to alternate back and forth between her life, and the class. I love that in the chapters that were set in the classroom setting she shared snippets of the writing of her students. They ranged from really good to really bad, and every genre you could imagine. It added another depth to the story I wouldn’t expect. Although it could be seen as distracting, or irrelevant, I thought it told us quite a bit about the characters that wrote them. Am I pleased that I finished? Yes, there was pay off at the end. Would I go out hunting more of the same? Probably not.
    • 4/5
      I thought this book was great at first. It worked well as a literary mystery, and kept me turning pages so I could find out who the "evil" member of the writing class was. However, I thought some momentum and credibility was lost once that person's identity was revealed.
    • 4/5
      Jincy Willett combines humor and suspense in this novel about the participants in a San Diego fiction workshop. There is a lunatic among them, but most of them get along with each other so well that they can't seem to pinpoint the perpetrator. Willett provides an in-depth character study of Amy Gallup, the 60-yr-old instructor, as Amy battles between her first impulse, which is to close herself off from the world and hope it goes away, and taking responsibility for the safety and well-being of her students. Along the way, everybody, including the reader, learns what makes good fiction.
    • 3/5
      I really like this author's quirky sense of humor. A few passages were laugh out loud funny--can't beat that.
    • 5/5
      This book is remarkably good on a number of levels -- a good class dynamics study, well defined and interesting characterization, witty, a psychological thriller, a mystery. Great plot. Great protagonist. And some very good points about writing, critiquing, teaching, and face it, just living, thrown in!. I hope it makes bestsellterdom!
    • 4/5
      The Writing Class by Jincy Willet is many things: intelligently-humorous, whip-smart, well-written, entertaining, engrossing, suspenseful, and scary – just to name a few! This book will be a real treat for all fiction lovers, writers, and wannabe writers. The Writing Class manages to combine mystery/suspense elements with classic fiction elements making the end result a fast-paced thriller for smart readers as well as a semi-tutorial on how to write a decent story. In the novel, reclusive eccentric Amy Gallup teaches an extension fiction writing class at the local college. At first, Amy is pleasantly surprised by the high potential exhibited by this semester’s group of students. However, her dream class soon turns into a nightmare when one of the students starts playing malevolent pranks on both Amy and on the other students. The pranks eventually escalate to murder and Amy must use everything at her disposal to try and nab the killer amongst the group. The resource with the most potential is the student’s writing and Amy examines each student’s prose for the clues. Anyone who has participated in a writing workshop (or for that matter, in any small collegiate class) will be able to relate to the class dynamic portrayed in this novel. As is almost always the case in these courses, the class is comprised of the know-it-all, the slacker, the pretty girl, the class clown, etc. The characters are maddening, amusing, and creepy and all of the other adjectives one can remember people in school being. Ms. Willett’s descriptive talents are truly frightening (pun intended)! Although, Amy Gallup (the workshop teacher), would admonish me for my use of cliché, I can’t help but describe this novel as a “real page turner!”
    • 4/5
      A few years ago I read with dismay an essay by Lynn Freed in her book, Reading, Writing and Leaving Home: Life on the Page about her experiences as a teacher of writing. (This article was also reprinted in the July 2005 edition of Harper's). It was uncomfortable to learn how little Freed liked or cared about her students, especially since a few years earlier, I had been one of her students. I have more than fond memories of her quiet passion as she discussed Marguerite Duras' The Lover. And as each workshop turned to the discussion of the student's works, there was certainly a shift of Freed's tone into "let's get down to business" mode, but she did a better job than most writing teachers of hiding her disdain. I'm not sure what kind of fallout she suffered after publishing her true feelings, but perhaps she should've followed the lead of Jincy Willett in The Writing Class and channeled her feelings on teaching writing into fiction. The Writing Class opens on the first day of an evening extension creative writing class and sets a dark comedic tone as it introduces each of the thirteen students -- all adults in varying stages of life and career. The novel is told from the point of view of the instructor, Amy Gallup -- an author who had early novel-writing successes, but in recent years has holed herself up in her house and not let writing or people get too close. An anonymous prankster among the students starts preying on Amy and the other students, until finally one of them is found dead under mysterious circumstances and writing must take the backseat to solving the mystery. The dead-on descriptions of the highs and lows of writing workshops mixed with a page-turning mystery felt like a breath of fresh air into my, as of late, stale reading life. I dare even Lynn Freed to keep herself from laughing while reading this book. Then again, the book might fill her with regrets over missed opportunities to murder those of us dabblers and hacks who irritated her the most.

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    The Writing Class - Jincy Willett

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