The main characters in the stories of the young American prose writer Wells Tower are people on the verge of a nervous breakdown. They drive themselves into a dead end, from which they can get out, but they don’t always want to. The heroes of the Tower are left with a feeling of constant anxiety and constant hope for empathy. Tower's prose is a series of comic situations that arise every now and then, unexpectedly giving way to a feeling of something terrible. At Tower, new American short prose acquired a new language - bright, polished and biting. Thanks to this symbiosis, Wells Tower is today called "America's next best writer."

Wells Tower is called "America's next best writer" by literary critics. A two-time Pushcart Prize winner and The Paris Review Award winner, Tower began his writing career with publications in The New Yorker, Harper's magazine, GQ, The Paris Review, and The Washington Post Magazine. The collection “The Door in the Eye” includes nine stories by a young American who rediscovers the genre of short prose. Tower is compared to Salinger, Capote and Kesey, because after them he talks about dead-end and tragic situations, about people who are not waiting for material benefits, but for warmth and sympathy. “There’s so much hopelessness in the world,” says Tower, “that my stories can’t help but have warmth.” At the same time, Tower is trying to understand what motivates people not to resist evil, to hide their feelings and to be hypocrites.

The language of Wells Tower is as expressive and textured as the body of a fighter. San Francisco Chronicle

< p>Tower's prose is a great reminder that one of the main tasks of a writer is to introduce the reader to new worlds.Los Angeles Times