Author Jess Walter - So Far Gone novel, lecture, audience Q&A, and book signing

Please join Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as they welcome Jess Walter to discuss his latest book So Far Gone.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?

With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

So Far Gone is available to pre-order through White Whale Bookstore in the lobby along with many books by other authors that have been part of the Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures series. After the lecture, there will be a book signing with author Jess Walter in the Music Hall Foyer.

TICKETS

In person tickets start at $31 for the upper balcony (where it is easy for a group to sit together when purchasing at the door) Jess Walter - Pittsburgh | Official Ticket Source | Carnegie Music Hall | Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 7:30pm | Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Tickets may also be purchased by phone (412) 622-8866 or at the door starting at 6:30 PM,

Online tickets are $31 Jess Walter Online - Pittsburgh | Official Ticket Source | Online Event | Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 7:30pm | Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures The viewing link will be emailed on the day of the event. Viewers will have access to the recorded program for one week.

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