Interview with Jess Walter author of "Beautiful Ruins"

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 … and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.“A literary miracle.”—NPR’s Fresh Air“A high-wire feat of bravura storytelling.”—NYT Book Review“A masterpiece … damn near perfect.”—Salon