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Stu Michaels was a former New York City detective who had tracked the Son of Sam killer, when he moved to Las Vegas and found himself heading casino…
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Author Timothy O'Grady left the United States shortly after he graduated from college in the 1970s. He moved to Europe and never moved back. He eventually…
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Phyllis Barber had to confront some difficult decisions about her marriage and her life as a Mormon. She details those sometimes painful processes in her…
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P. Moss has published a new book of "only in Las Vegas" short stories. And he's got a very unusual night job for a writer - he owns a couple of unusual…
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Economist Raj Patel writes in his new book that we have placed too much trust in the market value of everything. And that has had detrimental effects on…
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The United States has only 5% of the world's population but it uses 60% of the world's drugs. That number alone is enough to suggest that we have no…
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Author Timothy O'Grady left the United States in 1973 and he's lived in Europe pretty much ever since. He recently returned to travel across the country…
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Nevada's first boom was in Virginia City just before the Civil War. Author Dennis Drabelle has written a new history of the big silver boom. It's called…
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Shortly before he died, Las Vegas impressionist Danny Gans completed an autobiography. We talk with his children Amy and Andrew Gans about their life with…
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Novelist Ira Berkowitz has recently published his latest Jackson Steeg novel. Steeg is a hard-boiled detective who patrols the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood…