to the Far East Conference" (2012), originally published in GQ; and "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?" (2015), also originally published in GQ. In 2014, Tower was a finalist for two National Magazine Awards in Essays and Criticism for "The Old Man at Burning Man" and in Fiction for "The Dance Contest." In a segment from the July 19, 2018 episode of the Still Processing podcast, host Jenna Wortham discussed an incident involving Tower at a public reading held as part of the 2018 Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop in Portland, Oregon. The piece Tower selected to read from ("Own Goal," published in Harper's Magazine in 2010) featured direct quotes from homeless individuals, some of which were allegedly misogynistic. According to Wortham, several members of the audience walked out in protest. Tower issued a public apology at an assembly the following day. On May 22, 2022, Netflix paid $50 million for global rights to the conspiracy film "Pain Hustlers", written by Tower, directed by David Yates, and starring Emily Blunt. Tower's original screenplay was inspired by Evan Hughes’ nonfiction book "The Hard Sell", which was published January 2022. Tower’s unproduced screenwriting credits include "The True American" for director Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, and "Framed" for George Clooney's Smokehouse Productions and Netflix. His unproduced television writing credits include the dramatic series "Paper" for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and HBO, and the series "Mayor" for Alec Baldwin and HBO. Personal life As of 2009, Tower divides his time between Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York. His Facebook page has been inactive since August 2013. Bibliography "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?", GQ, October 2, 2017 "No Amount of Traffic or Instagrammers or Drunks Can Take the Magic Out of (Semi-) Wilderness", Outside, June 7, 2016 "The Old Man at Burning Man", GQ, August 31, 2015 "The Great Paper Caper", GQ, November 1, 2014 "From Wells Tower’s ‘The Dance Contest'", McSweeney's, Issue 44 "The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President", GQ, September 29, 2013 "In Gold We Trust", GQ, January 6, 2012 "Welcome to the Far East Conference", GQ, April 17, 2011 "Moto", ESPN, March 2, 2011 "Own Goal", Harper's Magazine, June 2010 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009 "The Thing with Feathers", Outside, March 1, 2006 "The Brown Coast," The