Introducing more guest authors at #VWF2025! We are just ONE WEEK away from the 2025 Festival. • Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver.bsky.social • Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social • katherena vermette • Rachel Wada • Jess Walter @jesswalter.bsky.social • Jack Wang

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Reinventing the Wheel, actors Santino Fontana, Nicole Kang, and Jason Alexander perform stories by Simon Rich, Tania James, and @jesswalter.bsky.social. bit.ly/4pwzC0M (First photo by Kevin Yatarola, second and third by Kyle Espeleta)

The new novel by @jesswalter.bsky.social is fantastic, and he reads from it here: youtu.be/PmbyZ73-N4E?...

Wednesday Night Sessions featuring Writer Jess Walter

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▶️ NOW PLAYING: @jesswalter.bsky.social's new novel, SO FAR GONE (@harperbooks.bsky.social), is very much of its time, and it speaks to the American lunacies and darknesses that have come into full flower over the past decade. A great talk w a great writer. Official June book club pick. Listen.

ICYMI: This week's episode is an interview with @jesswalter.bsky.social on his new novel "So Far Gone." Watch on YouTube or listen via A Line Around Your Thoughts on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. #Spokane #books #fiction #literature #zeitgeist www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVl...

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@jesswalter.bsky.social What a great listen! I work at a Chicago area public library and cannot wait to recommend this at my upcoming ‘Books at the Beach’ program. Love the Libby app. #publiclibraries #booksky 💙📚💙

@jesswalter.bsky.social - just finished-EXCELLENT! Thank you!!

Earlier this week, @jesswalter.bsky.social returned to Symphony Space for the launch of his brilliant new novel, So Far Gone. Thank you to Jess, Maria Semple, and Tim Daly for a fantastic evening, and to everyone who joined us! (Photos by Carlos Alayo)

Treated myself to a Father's Day gift, Jess Walter's new book, SO FAR GONE. The man's novels, short stories, and nonfiction never let me down. I'm always thrilled when he drops a new book. I've been looking forward to this one for a while. @jesswalter.bsky.social

The bestselling author delivers another gem in this topical "Grandpa v. Militia" adventure. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @harperbooks.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social @jesswalter.bsky.social #Booksky

One fun thing about hosting a show that pre-records is once it's up, it's up forever. Go check out @jesswalter.bsky.social's reading and short interview on WNS!

Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series@wns-at-ksf.bsky.social · last yr.

The @jesswalter.bsky.social episode is now available anytime at the link below! Check it out, and then read a Jess book or two, whydon'tcha?!

Thanks to @jesswalter.bsky.social, @jmjournalist.bsky.social, and @badlycooked.bsky.social for a great week of podcasting. Upcoming episodes: 6/17: Ivy Pochoda Subscribe and tune in: apple.co/3XMnpcc

The @jesswalter.bsky.social episode is now available anytime at the link below! Check it out, and then read a Jess book or two, whydon'tcha?!

Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series@wns-at-ksf.bsky.social · last yr.

The @jesswalter.bsky.social episode will be available at this link as of 7:00 p.m. Eastern on June 11th. Enjoy! youtu.be/PmbyZ73-N4E

Last chance to get your tickets for next Monday's Thalia Book Club with @jesswalter.bsky.social! Join Walter and Maria Semple for a conversation about his latest novel, So Far Gone. Featuring a reading from the book by Tim Daly. bit.ly/3ZIj0HR

Great Northwest Passages event with #1 New York Times bestselling author and Spokane native @jesswalter.bsky.social. Be sure to check out his new book, “So Far Gone.” #SoFarGone #JessWalter

The @jesswalter.bsky.social episode will be available at this link as of 7:00 p.m. Eastern on June 11th. Enjoy! youtu.be/PmbyZ73-N4E

Wednesday Night Sessions featuring Writer Jess Walter

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"Fiction really does force you to consider the interiors of various people." @jesswalter.bsky.social

Episode 714: Jess Walter

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One of my favorite authors, @jesswalter.bsky.social, joins me tomorrow to chat about his new book So Far Gone. Subscribe and tune in! Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2JZQLgt Spotify: spoti.fi/2GpMLEp iHeartRadio: ihr.fm/2TXaBzn Amazon Podcasts: amzn.to/2RuHlxs

How a recluse -- and all of us -- are SO FAR GONE in @jesswalter.bsky.social's latest novel, which publishes Tuesday. When Rhys finds his grandchildren at his door but doesn't recognize them, he's on the way to find out. #Booksky open.substack.com/pub/lynneper...

Review: 'So Far Gone'

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Wait, maybe? :)

Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series@wns-at-ksf.bsky.social · last yr.

Episodes are pre-recorded & post every other Wednesday @ 7:00 p.m. Eastern. We start this Wednesday with the one and only @jesswalter.bsky.social! Best three-point-shooting novelist in the game? Maybe!

Thanks to John Kenney, As Told To, and The Thoughtful Bro for a fun week of podcasting. Upcoming schedule: 6/10: @jesswalter.bsky.social FMC 6/13: @jmjournalist.bsky.social 6/17: Ivy Pochoda Subscribe and tune in: apple.co/3XMnpcc

A few photos of Spokane author @jesswalter.bsky.social for this week’s issue of @inlander.com for a story about Jess’ upcoming novel, So Far Gone, out on June 10. www.inlander.com/culture/in-h...

Set in the Pacific Northwest, @jesswalter.bsky.social's buoyant "So Far Gone" seeks a better America amid our many conflicts. Out Tuesday from @harperbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/b...

A Witty Caper Starring Gun-Toting Christians in Rural Washington

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So Far Gone by @jesswalter.bsky.social is so freaking great! Hilarious fish out of water road trip caper steeped in our teetering modern times. The Guncle meets a woke Dirty Harry. @hamiltoncain.bsky.social NYT review is a delight and captures its spirit! @harperbooks.bsky.social

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Set in the Pacific Northwest, @jesswalter.bsky.social's buoyant "So Far Gone" seeks a better America amid our many conflicts. Out Tuesday from @harperbooks.bsky.social. Here's my review for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/b...

"SO FAR GONE," the new novel by @jesswalter.bsky.social, comes out in a few days. He showed me some places around Spokane that inspired it. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

America’s ‘spot news novelist’ takes on the Trump era from Spokane

Jess Walter thought he needed to move away to make it as a writer. He found the inspiration for “So Far Gone” in his hometown.

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Then do yourself another favor and read Craig Welch’s great writing, starting with bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Craig Welch@craigwelch.bsky.social · last yr.

Boarding a plane and about to reread novelist @jesswalter.bsky.social’s “The Cold Millions” in prep for the release next week of his latest, “So Far Gone,” which Ann Patchett calls “a warm, funny, loving novel…. An American original." Do yourself a favor. www.publishersweekly.com/9780062868145

@jesswalter.bsky.social, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, returns to Symphony Space on June 16 to launch his latest work! Join Walter and Maria Semple for a conversation about So Far Gone, featuring a reading from the novel by Tim Daly. Get your tickets! bit.ly/3ZIj0HR

“Books covered every available surface and much of the floor. Leah loved books more than she loved anything in the world, but this . . . this seemed like a sickness, like an infestation of words.” —excerpt from “So Far Gone” by Jess Walter (@jesswalter.bsky.social‬)

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So Far Gone by Jess Walter — A prim girl stood still as a fence post on Rhys Kinnick...

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in june, the otherppl book club will be reading SO FAR GONE, the hotly anticipated new novel from @jesswalter.bsky.social, available from @harperbooks.bsky.social. Jess will be appearing on the podcast later this month. stay tuned!

Thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social for an excellent conversation about his book The Imagined Life. Upcoming episodes: 5/27: @suzannecope.bsky.social 6/3: John Kenney 6/10: @jesswalter.bsky.social Subscribe and tune in: apple.co/3XMnpcc