On literature and music....
Wells Tower (born April 14, 1973) is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction. In 2009 he published his first short story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) to much critical acclaim. His short fiction has also been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Vice, Harper's Magazine, A Public Space, Fence and other periodicals.
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Books to give you hope: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
In a time of bitter divisions, these inventive depictions of some very different struggles remind us of our common humanity – and the rude health of short fiction
And the song... What a wonderful homage. So much beauty. I love this track.
Ciaran Lavery - 'Wells Tower Song'
And with that the season draws a close
My lips are stained with fair-thee-wells and alcohol
I know you closer than your name
Are we bound by luck?
Or the summer rain? I'll never know
Lassoed around the heart again
Let me go
Let me go
Locked out of the apartment
Taking pictures in the snow
Ooh, everything ravaged
Ooh, everything burned
Ooh, everything is damaged
Oh, everything earned
Someone turn up the radio
They're playing my song
They're playing my song
Remember nights out there in the saddle
It's like the sky collapsed
And it's exposed our every scar
Pulling hard on the reins again
Let me go
Let me go
Locked out of the apartment
You're just a figment in the snow
Ooh, everything ravaged
Ooh, everything burned
Ooh, everything is damaged
Oh, everything earned
Ooh, everything ravaged
Ooh, everything burned
Ooh, everything is damaged
Oh, everything earned
Tell it to me now
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"The award-winning singer-songwriter from Aghagallon in County Antrim, Ireland may be decorated at home by the Northern Ireland Music Prize (for his 2016 album 'Let Bad In') and might have totted up over 80 million streams on Spotify during his five year solo career, but it's the unrivalled knack he has for a poetic heart-stopping lyric that's set to earn him wider recognition as a treasured singer-songwriter."
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