Jess Walter has written a book that is funny, compulsively readable, and complex.  In So Far Gone, he reminds us, in a world that sometimes seems to have gone crazy, you escape society at your own peril.  Can you escape the world into isolation or is life only meaningful when you live it for and with others?  We ask the very talented Jess Walter that very question. 

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Books mentioned on this week's episode:

So Far Gone by Jess Walter

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter

Citizen Vance by Jess Walter

Ruby Ridge by Jess Walter

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

The Zero by Jess Walter

Land of the Blind by Jess Walter

We Live in Water by Jess Walter

The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Bowling Aline by Robert D. Putnam 

Family Sayings by Natalia Ginzburg

Stoner by John Edwards Williams

James by Percival Everett

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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