Wells Tower

On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Simmons, Junot Diaz, Andy Borowitz, Wells Tower, T.R. Knight, Steven Adler, Joyce Carol Oates, Ace Frehley, New Yorker Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Krugman, A Life in the Theatre, Saturday Night Live, David Mamet, Jeffrey Toobin, Patrick Stewart, New York News
Chris Kompanek

The discussions at the New Yorker Festival have become kind of legendary with events often selling out just minutes after they go on sale.

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Trains, Planes, On The Street...

Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Reading in Public, Franzen, Chuck Palahniuk, Updike, Wharton, Palahniuk, Vs Naipaul, John Updike, Naipaul, Vonnegut, Jonathan Franzen, Wells Tower, Spotted Reading Publicly, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut, Ereaders, Books News

It's time for another installment of Reading In Public! When someone takes a book into a public place, it's a big commitment. We have lots of things ...

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Author Wells Tower Shares His Hatred of the Internet, His Love of Action Plots, and an Old Norse Recipe

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nypl, Fiction, Wells Tower, Young Lions, Writing, New York News
The New York Public Library

Born in Canada, raised in the South, and now living in the writer's paradise of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Wells Tower offers a fresh ear for dialogue and well-researched characters drawn from seemingly anywhere and any time.

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Masters of Technique

Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Weinreb, Paul Eggers, Stephen Carter, Patrick Somerville, Michael Griffith, Chess, Mongoos Press, Steven Levery, Katherine Neville, Howard Goldowsky, Katie Kitamura, Edward Falco, Wells Tower, John Wheatcroft, Masters of Technique, Books News
Mark Coggins

As part of a project to raise money for chess schools and clubs, independent publisher Mongoose has just released an anthology of chess fiction entitled Masters of Technique.

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Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Travel, Media, Wells Tower, Writing, Journalism, Outside Magazine, Media News
Joshuah Bearman

Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.

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