Jess Walter
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August 28, 2010 -- Touring UK for FLOP, dodging buses, rooting for Arsenal, tending my Guinness addiction, three guys stop to ask me for directions and when I start talking, one despairs: "Ah, this is shite. We've stopped an American for directions."
Jess Walter is the author of five novels, including "The Financial Lives of the Poets," "The Zero," a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and "Citizen Vince," winner of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel.
NEW P.S. EDITIONS OF 'OVER TUMBLED GRAVES' and 'LAND OF THE BLIND' NOW AVAILABLE
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The Financial Lives of the Poets is out in paperback!UK Reviews:
--‘Extremely funny … Walter’s sentences are beautifully weighted and his comic touch is excellent.’ Simon Baker, Literary Review -- ‘The best post-recession novel … Brilliant - and brilliantly funny,’ Esquire -- ‘Excellent and gratifyingly funny.’ The Independent -- ‘One of the funniest books I’ve read in ages,' Irish Times -- ‘Hilarious ... beautifully laid-back.' Metro UK -- ‘Frequently funny and ... rather moving.’ The Sunday Times "A small masterpiece" -- Time
"Lifts off like a rocket" -- Boston Globe "Dangerously astute" -- New York Times "A delight" -- Entertainment Weekly "Deliciously antic" -- Washington Post "A superb farce" -- NPR's FreshAir "A joy to read" -- Nick Hornby, Parade "Witheringly dead-on" -- L.A. Times "A brilliant writer" -- Dallas Morning News "Gasp-out loud funny" -- New York Daily News "A terrific book" -- Arizona Republic "The ultimate something-for-everyone-don't-skip-must-read" -- Sara Nelson, The Daily Beast --TIME MAGAZINE'S #2 BOOK OF THE YEAR--
Best of the year: NPR's Fresh Air, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Arizona Republic, The Oregonian, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salon.com, The Believer Readers' Poll and New West. UPCOMING EVENTSAUGUST 30 -- Yellowstone Public Radio/RealTime: www.ypradio.org
AUGUST 31 -- LONDON, Reuters TV (recorded) SEPTEMBER 1 -- LONDON, Foyles Books signing, 10 a.m. SEPTEMBER 1 -- LONDON, The Strand, BBC World Service, 3 p.m. SEPTEMBER 7 -- PAPERBACK RELEASE OF THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS SEPTEMBER 7 -- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, Left Bank Books, 7 p.m. SEPTEMBER 9 -- PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, River Run Books, 7 p.m., with Sean Farrell SEPTEMBER 10 -- NEW YORK, Center for Fiction, with Sam Lipsyte SEPTEMBER 12 -- BROOKLYN, NY, Brooklyn Book Festival SEPTEMBER 15 -- LACEY, WA., Timberland Library Staff Day SEPTEMBER 16 -- SEATTLE, WA. University Bookstore, 7 p.m. SEPTEMBER 26 -- VANCOUVER, BC Indigo/Chapters SEPTEMBER 27 -- SURREY, BC Indigo/Chapters SEPTEMBER 28 -- VICTORIA, BC Indigo/Chapters OCTOBER 7 -- POST FALLS, IDAHO, Idaho Library Association Meeting OCTOBER 9-10 -- PORTLAND, Wordstock OCTOBER 15 -- SEATTLE, Seattle Pacfic University, classroom visit 11 a.m. OCTOBER 15-16 -- SEATTLE, Hugo House Visiting Writer Series OCTOBER 18 -- CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Ellensburg OCTOBER 21 -- DENVER, University of Colorado, Denver OCTOBER 25-26 -- TORONTO, Toronto International Book Festival OCTOBER 29-30 -- MISSOULA, Montana Festival of the Book NOVEMBER 8 -- Eastern Oregon University 2011 JANUARY 27 -- EDWARDS, CO, Bookworm JANUARY 28 -- DENVER, Tattered Cover MARCH 10 -- SPOKANE, Keynote, Society for the Advancment of American Philosophy Annual Meeting MARCH 12 -- TUCSON -- Tucson Book Festival MARCH 15 -- PHOENIX -- Poisoned Pen PRAISE FOR THE ZERO
"'The Zero' could end up as the 'Catch 22' of 9/11 ... (with) its brilliant ironies, its deadpan truths, its insider smarts and its everyguy hero ... (Walter) elevates 'The Zero' above mere satire to Kafkaesque parable." -- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Walter is a gifted writer with unusual breadth. And among the already proliferating and formulaic body of film and fiction grappling with Sept. 11, 'The Zero' is a standout." -- THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "Stunning and provocative ... exquisitely written ... 'The Zero' is by turns heartbreaking and deadpan funny." -- THE SEATTLE TIMES "… a noir page-turner with powerful social commentary ... full of dead-on insights into our culture ... nails our often surreal post-9/11 world." -- WASHINGTON POST BOOKWORLD "Mr. Walter (is) a ridiculously talented writer ... The best of 'The Zero' breathes life into the author’s idea of post-9/11 life as a fever dream for its characters." NEW YORK TIMES "Walter has created a satire/tragedy that Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. might appreciate … a dark allegory about the attack, the aftermath, and what has happened to America." USA TODAY PRAISE FOR CITIZEN VINCE
"Utterly inventive ... excruciatingly breathless ... you just have to read it." WASHINGTON POST "Wonderfully written ... hard to forget." LOS ANGELES TIMES "Citizen Vince is fast, tough, thoughtful and funny. I loved this novel." NICK HORNBY |
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