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Wells Tower: 'the clever cold architect of your mind'

Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, on short stories and journalism.

August 2009, in Melbourne as a guest of Melbourne Writers Festival.

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21 Jan 2010

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I enjoyed Wells' comments on the writing process in this interview - that too much preparation or forethought can actually hamper the creative process - and his comments on fiction writing vs magazine writing. This is a short interview but still interesting and useful from a writer's perspective. Wells' writing is restrained but rich at the same time; it's sort of slow but nuanced. I recently enjoyed one of his short stories, 'Raw Water', on the McSweeney's iPhone ap.

Please more of this sort of stuff, Wheeler Centre, especially for readers and writers living outside of Melbourne who can not attend your events.

Betty Kotevski
21 January at 01:01PM

Happened upon this via the RRR website. Good to hear Mr Tower speak (what a name, is it real?). I just read his short story collection 'Everything Ravaged, everything burned', very impressive. ..although I wimped out on the last story when the going got too gory....definitely not for the faint-hearted.
Unfortunately I didn't know about his writing when he was in town...thanks for the video posting.

Carolyn Court
26 January at 11:54PM

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