{"id":907,"date":"2010-06-11T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2015-03-09T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T19:49:53","slug":"wells-tower-wins-young-lions-fiction-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/wells-tower-wins-young-lions-fiction-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells Tower Wins Young Lions Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/everythingravagedeverythingburned\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-925\" title=\"Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tower1.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned\" width=\"99\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Wells Tower, whose short-story collection <em>Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned<\/em> won the New York Public Library\u2019s Young Lions Fiction Award last night. Tower\u2019s first two published stories were picked from the slush pile by <em>The Paris Review<\/em> way back in 2001, and both showcased what Edmund White <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/29\/books\/review\/White-t.html?_r=1\">called<\/a> the \u201ctensile strength\u201d of his style. \u201cHis range is wide,\u201d wrote White, \u201cand his language impeccable, never strained or fussy.\u201d You can hear Tower read the first of the two stories we published, \u201cDown through the Valley,\u201d by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/audio\/5293\/down-through-the-valley-wells-tower\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Wells Tower, whose short-story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned won the New York Public Library\u2019s Young Lions Fiction Award last night. Tower\u2019s first two published stories were picked from the slush pile by The Paris Review way back in 2001, and both showcased what Edmund White called the \u201ctensile strength\u201d of his style. 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