Jess Walter is the author of five novels and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, in Details, Playboy, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe among many others.
His books:
--The Financial Lives of the Poets
--The Zero
--Citizen Vince
--Land of the Blind
--Over Tumbled Graves
--Ruby Ridge
Walter also writes screenplays and was the co-author of Christopher Darden’s 1996 bestseller In Contempt.
His favorite books of 2010 were:
Hilarious, moving, a collision of tones, this is an epic about an Irish prep school, the Moby Dick of horny adolescence.
This is a book of poetry by Robert Wrigley. First off, it's just beautiful and musical (with strains of Ginsberg's Howl in it) but I also love the way this book moves from big national observations to small personal moments.
Funny and profane and apt in its black-hearted take of America. Every sentence is a treat.
Besides being a wonderful fiction writer, she might be my favorite writer about literature and culture right now.
I'm a little late to the Bolano train (this translation actually came out in 2008) but I'm totally on board. Brilliant.
As for what Jess is up to in 2011, he said:
"I'm finishing a novel (can't say too much about it yet, except that its about Hollywood, Italy and the Donner Party. Yeah, another one of those) and a collection of short stories."
Of course, we know EXACTLY what he's doing on January 29, 2011--he a panelist on Tattered Cover's Writers Respond to Readers Event!
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