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Las Vegas is one of America’s booziest cities. And beer has played a big part in developing that reputation.But for so long, the tap handles in casinos…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV says a former student is establishing a $5 million endowment to bolster the rare books collection at the university libraries.The…
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Two days of books, authors, theater — and the perfect amount of rain
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After the success of her literary memoir about her gypsy background, Oksana Marafioti is trying something different: urban fantasy.
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If we’re lucky, we only know the more tragic side of Las Vegas through hearsay – things we read in the newspaper or see on TV.But if you’re not, you live…
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Romance novels are often ridiculed as being – well – some say: trashy. Some people might even say romance novels are not even real writing.But the legion…
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What’s on your bucket list? Do you want to spend a night at a $10,000 a night suite on the Strip eating caviar and drinking champagne?Maybe your bucket…
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So many worthy books, but for most of us there is so little time to read them all. Those words are usually spoken each year when the list-making season…
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We want to say that Decemberlands, by local writer and occasional Desert Companion contributor Greg Blake Miller — a slim, highly readable volume of three short stories with holiday themes — would make a great stocking stuffer. But that would shortchange the book: By the time the recipient opens it on December 25, he or she will be pretty much holidayed-out. And it would be a shame to set aside a book that, really, isn’t about seasonal clichés.
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In her hotly anticipated debut novel, onetime Nevada author Claire Vaye Watkins imagines the consequences of extreme drought on the West and its people