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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Novelist Ira Berkowitz has recently published his latest Jackson Steeg novel. Steeg is a hard-boiled detective who patrols the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood…