The Inlander

Dirty cops, civil unrest and income inequality: Author Jess Walter's new Spokane-set novel The Cold Millions takes place a century ago, but its themes still resonate

The Cold Millions, available everywhere Oct. 27, takes place mostly over the course of a just few weeks in the early 1900s when the scrappy itinerant workers of a nascent labor movement and the region ...
The Inlander

Spokane author Jess Walter returns with a novel about our topsy-turvy times

Unlike its predecessor, The Cold Millions, Jess Walter's new novel, SO FAR GONE, is very much set in the here and now — a post-pandemic, post-truth age where everyone seems to be searching for solid ...
The Inlander

Jess Walter

"Excellent writing and storytelling and just what heck of a GREAT guy — a Spokane treasure!" (Royce G.); "His books transport me. Such a mix of humor and pathos." (Mollie W.); "I loved The Cold ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

In Spokane author Jess Walter’s new novel, America is ‘So Far Gone’

Thirty years ago, a Spokane reporter named Jess Walter wrote a full-length investigation of the standoff at Ruby Ridge in Boundary County, Idaho, an arrest-turned-shootout that killed a U.S. marshal ...
The Inlander

Spokane author Jess Walter returns with a novel about our topsy-turvy times

U nlike its predecessor, The Cold Millions, Jess Walter's new novel, SO FAR GONE, is very much set in the here and now — a post-pandemic, post-truth age where everyone seems to be searching for solid ...