August 16th, 2011 / 4:03 pm
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This Wells Tower essay about traveling in Iceland and Greenland with his father and brother is one of the best things you will read this week (and beyond). Also, consider voting for American Short Fiction’s SXSW Interactive panel.

14 Comments

  1. August 16th, 2011 / 9:19 pm Benjamin Grislic—

      Agree

  2. August 16th, 2011 / 9:56 pm Justin Daugherty—

      I am a fan all of things Wells Tower. Thanks for this.

  3. August 16th, 2011 / 10:21 pm d.s.—

      holy wow

  4. August 17th, 2011 / 12:21 am BoomersMustDie—

      it’s three years old, not that it matters, but the info is all out of date…

  5. August 17th, 2011 / 12:22 am Roxane—

      Awesome is timeless.

  6. August 17th, 2011 / 2:02 pm bobby—

      “I submit that one Ed Tower introduced a quantity of noxious material to the local ecology when, while skinny-dipping in a cave, he misplaced a pair of microbially “hot” Hanes briefs and some sandals you could have used for fish bait”

      Thanks, Roxane! hahaha

  7. August 17th, 2011 / 2:02 pm bobby—

      “I submit that one Ed Tower introduced a quantity of noxious material to the local ecology when, while skinny-dipping in a cave, he misplaced a pair of microbially “hot” Hanes briefs and some sandals you could have used for fish bait”

      Thanks, Roxane! hahaha

  8. August 17th, 2011 / 2:06 pm BoomersMustDie—

      Wells’ brother sounds like a dick

  9. August 17th, 2011 / 3:54 pm c2k—

      Or he makes him sound like one.

      This guy shows up in his fiction as well – not surprisingly.

  10. August 17th, 2011 / 6:13 pm BoomersMustDie—

      No doubt a mutual molestation pact gone savage

  11. August 17th, 2011 / 7:43 pm Leapsloth14—

      I wonder if this essay couldn’t spark a conversation on hyperbole as device in CNF. I love the technique, especially for humor (one of its roles), but still. Excellent imagery here–poetic in its exactitude.

  12. August 17th, 2011 / 9:06 pm Guesty—

      it clearly pays for a writer to have weird parents.

  13. August 18th, 2011 / 2:52 am deadgod—

      “[H]yperbole […] humor, but still” is, for me, too kind a characterization of the forced theatrics of Tower’s grumbling.

  14. August 18th, 2011 / 2:52 am deadgod—

      “[H]yperbole […] humor, but still” is, for me, too kind a characterization of the forced theatrics of Tower’s grumbling.