Wells Tower

Wells Tower's fiction has been included in Best American Short Stories and he has written non-fiction for several magazines, including GQ, The New York Times Magazine and Outside.

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  • The High Life

    by Wells Tower

    New York Times Magazine | March 2011

    How tall tales, tree huggers and pot farms are transforming a California backwater.

  • My Kushy New Job

    by Wells Tower

    GQ | August 2010

    With pot laws changing, we thought it'd be a good idea to send our weed-averse correspondent to see what life is really like in Amsterdam, the world's cannabis capital. He took a job at a marijuana coffee shop, inhaled the best stuff on earth, and saw the totally righteous future of legalized ganja.

  • Meltdown

    by Wells Tower

    Outside | April 2008

    Funny story: My old man gets cancer, survives, vows thenceforth to see as much of the world as he can, drags me all over creation, and leaves mind-bending mishaps in his wake. Our next mission? Tour rapidly defrosting Iceland and Greenland. Bad idea? You could say that.

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