Dave Hickey at the Vegas Valley Book Festival
Posted: 6 months 2 weeks ago Comments PermalinkWe'll bring out Dave Hickey in a minute, but first: This past Saturday's Vegas Valley Book Festival at downtown's Fifth Street School was, as the cool kids say, boffo. There were a lot more...
Cornel Bonca reviews the new David Foster Wallace bio
Posted: 7 months 3 weeks ago Comments PermalinkD.T. Max chooses as the epigraph to his altogether absorbing biography of David Foster Wallace a passage from one of Wallace’s most self-revealing stories, “Good Old Neon”: “What goes on inside is...
Maile Chapman reviews Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
Posted: 8 months 5 days ago Comments PermalinkReading Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins, is a pleasure for the way her stories coolly observe what one character calls “the love of destruction” in the human heart. We see this hunger for...
Book launch as freak show: P Moss unveils 'Vegas Knockout'
Posted: 8 months 2 weeks ago Comments PermalinkYou never quite know what you're going to get when visiting the Double Down Saloon -- even when it's advertised.
Last night was the book launch for Double Down owner and CityLife Books...
