Bookworm
Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins
Walter on his much acclaimed new work, a completely pleasurable summer read -- and not your typical Hollywood novel.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenHollywood, the Coast of Italy, the Donner Pass, the Pacific Northwest, are just some of the settings that combine to make Beautiful Ruins a completely pleasurable summer read. Jess Walter reveals that pleasure has its underside and the book's design contrasts the real with the ideal, the beautiful with the ruined.
