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Wells Tower/ February 14, 2010 / Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

The buzz surrounding Wells Tower’s first book of short stories was so deafening, the praise so universal, that Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned sold out within two weeks of publication in 2009, and was named one of the top fiction book of the year by dozens of reviewers publications. The collection of nine intense stories is packed with a startling spectrum of emotion, mayhem, disappointments, and—always—humor. Morally-disheveled characters (from philanderers to pedophiles to marauding Vikings), cheesy surroundings (rural carnivals and barely-livable homes), fraught situations (violent confrontations and disastrous hunting expeditions), and painful experiences (all of the above) are carefully observed through the prism of Tower’s eccentrically poetic viewpoint. In this interview, Wells Tower talks about his sudden celebrity, his writing process, and a hilarious travel experience with his father and brother.

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