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The Financial Lives of the Poets

Feb

4

2012

The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

“Let yourself fall for this cautionary tale by a local talent who has raked in national acclaim! Jess Walter is at his sparkling best with this tale of a downsized journalist who uses home equity to start an online financial website that puts its advice in poetic form. With a gigantic mortgage due, his family …

Dec

8

2010

Unemployment Reading

In his National Book Award finalist selection and 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning book, The Zero, Seattle author Jess Walter crafted a tale that rose to the top of a loosely united genre of post-9/11 inspired novels. In The Financial Lives of the Poets, Walter has entered the realm of what we might cleverly call “recession fiction.”