Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 PM
Jeffrey Rotter presents The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
In conversation with John Wray

The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering, a darkly comic, wildly original novel from Greenlight neighbor Jeffrey Rotter, welcomes you to the dystopian world, with the story of a family in flight from the law (but with their sights on the stars), set in a near‐future America. Rotter (author of The Unknown Knowns) infuses his all-too-familiar decaying, poverty-stricken, post-capitalist, anti-intellectual landscape with absurdist humor and deep loneliness, writing in the tradition of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Octavia Butler. The book has received high praise from fellow writers including Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte, Etgar Keret, Douglas Coupland, and John Wray, who writes “Jeffrey twists society as we know it into wild balloon-animal shapes, ones in which we may just recognize ourselves. The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering would be heartbreaking—even devastating—if it weren’t so damn much fun to read.” Rotter talks at Greenlight with Wray, author of the novel Lowboy, about his work and the craft of fiction.