Jess Walter

"This vigorous, engaging novel is one of the sharpest satires to come along in years." -- BOSTON GLOBE

"Darkly funny, surprisingly tender ... Walter ... has an abiding faith in the ability of human beings to be decent." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Funny ... engaging ... a refreshing reminder that fiction remains a relevant, vital way to understand ourselves." -- (Portland) OREGONIAN

"Wildly funny ... Jess Walter is a brilliant writer, one of the freshest new voices in American literature. His sentences snap with energy." -- DALLAS MORNING NEWS

"A deliciously antic tale of an American dream gone very sour ... sharp, wide-eyed, soulful ... a scathing indictment of our country's character and the 'ruined systems' we labor under." -- WASHINGTON POST

"The hero of Jess Walter's novel is like a stoned Humbert Humbert ... The funniest way-we-live-now book of the year.” -- TIME

-----NAMED AMONG THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009-----
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.

AUGUST 13 -- SPOKANE (signing only) new Aunties bookstore in the skywalk, 4 p.m.

AUGUST 23 -- UK RELEASE OF THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS

AUGUST 25 -- EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL, Edinburgh, Scotland

AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 4 -- LONDON, details to come

SEPTEMBER 7 -- PAPERBACK RELEASE OF THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS

SEPTEMBER 7 -- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, Left Bank Books, 7 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 9 -- PORTSMITH, 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.

OCTOBER 7 -- POST FALLS, IDAHO, Idaho Library Association Meeting

OCTOBER 9-10 -- PORTLAND, Wordstock

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 28 -- DENVER, Tattered Cover Book Club meeting

MARCH 10 -- SPOKANE, Keynote, Society for the Advancment of American Philosophy Annual Meeting

MARCH 12 -- TUCSON -- Tucson Book Festival

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