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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Season 2010-2011
Wells Tower grew up near Chapel Hill, NC, in a rural region tempered by progressive, well-to-do townships that he refers to as the exburbs. Along with the swampy gulf coast of Florida, Wells recreates this region in his fiction with rich detail and an affection and yearning for home. Driving that strong feeling is a penetrating and occasionally hilarious awareness of hypocrisy and bad decision-making, tempered by empathy for human beings who run into bad luck.
Wells has been quietly publishing short stories over the past decade in several of the major venues, along with a good bit of magazine and newspaper writing. His first volume, Everything Ravaged and Everything Burned, is a powerful culmination of momentum that sheds light in multiple directions on the many themes and literary origins of his work so far. He is an old-fashioned short-story writer, hoping to keep the tradition alive.
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