Jess Walter

Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he's about to lose his mind—until he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all ... and have a pretty damn great time doing it, in a comic and heartfelt novel from a National Book Award nominee. 40,000 first printing.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse? Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. . . . Until, one night on a desperate two a.m. run to 7-Eleven, he falls in with some local stoners, and they end up hatching the biggest—and most misbegotten—plan yet.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

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