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Review: H. Lee Barnes explores the post-traumatic life of an MGM Grand fire survivor in new novel
Books Comments May 08, 2013 6:54pmIt’s 1980, and Jude is a young blackjack dealer at the MGM Grand when a fire breaks out in the hotel. Unlike 85 others, he narrowly escapes the inferno, but emotionally he is deeply scarred by the...
‘What’s truest to me’: An interview with author H. Lee Barnes
Books Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 1:35pmI KNOW HIM AS LEE, or Barnes, and we’ve been friends since we met at a joint reading in a Las Vegas Book Festival a decade ago. I’d been so stunned by the power of his writing that I used part of my...
Trash Fiction Corner: David Baldaaci’s ‘The Hit’
Books Comments May 01, 2013 8:07pmBOOK: The Hit, by David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, 400 pagesBEST-SELLER STATUS: Too early to tell; it was published April 23, and the latest sales figures reflected by the New York Times...
A novelist’s memoir of his split life could use a little more life
Books Comments May 01, 2013 7:46pmAleksandar Hemon might have titled his new essay collection Life Before and After Wartime, but he settled for The Book of My Lives.The plural speaks to his having grown up in Bosnia and matured in...
Name that poet
Books Comments May 01, 2013 6:53pmIn a recent essay for The Millions, a literary website, humorist Patrick Wensink — honoring April as National Poetry Month — wrote about his lifelong aversion to poetry. This is where Las Vegas comes...
Book tells the convoluted tale of a gangster and his FBI pals
Books Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 7:50pmIn 1999, the FBI placed four men on its Ten Most Wanted list. The first, James Kopp, who murdered an abortion doctor, was apprehended in France in 2001. The third, Angel Resendiz, a notorious serial...
Plant yourself with ‘Eating Vegan in Vegas’
Books Comments Apr 10, 2013 8:03pmHas Vegas evolved to where local diners can have one restaurant-prepared vegan meal per day for a year? That’s the premise behind herbivore Paul Graham’s new book, Eating Vegan in Vegas, inspired by...
Review: Karen Russell shows why there’s still life in the short story form
Books Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:44pmEvery so often, in order to fill a few inches of space or post something to a blog, a writer will either declare that the short story is in the midst of a renaissance or that the “short story...
Review: ‘How Literature Saved My Life’ finds its author desperate to escape his numbness
Books Comments Mar 20, 2013 6:11pmAfter I got over my irritation with David Shields’ new meditation/memoir, How Literature Saved My Life, I discovered that he’d written a very sad, very lonely book. Shields seems to see himself as...
Review: ‘Going Clear’ offers harrowing look at Church of Scientology
Books Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 3:53pmIn No Man Knows My History, Fawn Brodie’s excellent biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she observes that Smith’s boundless imagination would have...
