Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

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Gnut didn’t hardly say a word to anybody, just held Mary close to him, trying to keep her soothed and safe from all of us, his friends. If you want stories that will actually disturb you, rather than just make you feel slightly bleak about humanity's prospects, it'd be better to read.

Bullshit, of course, seeing as Haakon made it down the hill by himself and crammed his tender stomach with about nine tough steaks. For the next few years, fans of Harper’s magazine and readers of The Washington Post could read Tower’s giddily depressing journalism on subjects as casually horrifying as telemarketers and Young Republicans. Pero no nos engañemos, el primer libro de Wells Tower no fue uno de los debuts literarios más celebrados del 2009 en los Estados Unidos por ser una historia épica de rudos navegantes nórdicos. Then he ran at us with his sword raised high, and Gnut had to slip behind him quickly and put a bear hug on him. He’d have rowed from his shack to his shithouse if somebody would invent a ship whose prow could cut sod.After all, great short stories capture the evanescent moments that all people experience, exalting them to art.

Then about a month or two ago, I read some totally underwhelming Wells Tower story in the New Yorker, and so like Mike Reynolds, I was just kind of all, "meh, yeah whatever. Wells Tower’s short stories and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. We could see a man making his way toward a clump of white-walled cottages, his donkey loping along behind him with a load. Not long after we got back, Djarf had a worm crawl up a hole in his foot and had to give up raiding. Gnut’s wool coat was stiff with filth and his long hair so heavy and unclean that even the raw wind was having a hard time getting it to move.They aren't mad because you hurt their feelings, they're mad because you found them in the first place and THEN hurt them.