The Financial Lives of the Poets

The hero of Jess Walter's novel, the funniest way-we-live-now book of the year, is a financial journalist with a poetic bent. Hit hard by the recession, he becomes the world's worst suburban pot dealer, to make ends meet. He's like a stoner Humbert Humbert.

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