Wells Tower
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A Proper Fake
Wells Towers gives GQ yet another essay. His subject this time? The most prolific counterfeiter in American history, Frank Bourassa: Frank’s self-image may be described as not merely healthy but hyperpituitary. When I asked him where he found the lunatic…
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A Wild Hunt
Wells Tower went on an elephant hunt, and then wrote about it for GQ: The indescribable thought sensation was not this, but some tiny part of it was sort of like this: Before I saw the elephant get shot, I…
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The Eyeball #40: Unreal Fiction and Film, Part 1
I’m midway through teaching a course at Antioch University Seattle called Unreal Fiction and Film. Every week we pair a film or selection of shorts with a short story. The class is scheduled from 7-10 PM on Mondays, a brutal…
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Wells Tower Wins Young Lion Fiction Award
Wells Tower went home last night with the New York Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award. Presumably because he’s been nominated for several awards and not won, a friend of his whom I spoke to at the event said that…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
In my (wow, it’s already been almost a) year here as Sunday editor at The Rumpus, I’ve never seen a week with so much incredible content. If you missed it, come take a peek.
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Punk Rock Literati: Wells Tower and Hellbender
In June 1964 Hunter S. Thompson wrote a, for lack of a better word, gonzo letter to President Lyndon Johnson from the Holiday Inn in Pierre, South Dakota
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Mourning the Book
I expected to feel a sense of accomplishment when I finished Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose,” but instead I felt lost, grief-stricken. It was a mixture of sadness for the main character and a fear that I might yet ruin…