New American Writing: Wells Tower

JUL 01 WED: 07:00pm; Hammer Readings

: Wells Tower; Wells Tower Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned March 2009 256 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

New American Writing: Wells Tower

The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, and the Plimpton Discovery Prize from The Paris Review, Wells Tower is the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, a collection of short fiction. Tower's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, and The Washington Post.

NEW AMERICAN WRITING
A series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of shorts fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00p.m.

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This series is made possible, in part, with support from Bronya and Andrew Galef.

Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.